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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Urine
Mockery
Damned
Delicious

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I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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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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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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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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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.
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To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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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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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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