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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.
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I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
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In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
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It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
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Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.
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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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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
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To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
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I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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