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Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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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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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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Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.
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[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.
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I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.
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