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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
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