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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.
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The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
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Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.
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The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?
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Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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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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You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?
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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
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You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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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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There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something
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