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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.
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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.
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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
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Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view.
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Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.
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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.
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People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.
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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by
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If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
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Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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