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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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