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Things didn't turn out the way they were suppsed to, but qhat can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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life
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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. The sea is without a wrinkle. There is not a whisper of wind. The hours last forever. You are so bored you sink into a state of apathy close to a coma. Then the sea becomes rough and your emotions are whipped into a frenzy. Yet even these two opposites do not remain distinct. In your boredom there are elements of terror: you bre..
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Stories full of metaphors are by writers who play the language like a mandolin for our entertainment, novelists,
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Yann Martel |
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But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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El hecho de escoger la duda como filosofia de vida es como elegir la inmovilidad como forma de transporte.
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body.
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truth
true-to-life
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Right away, death is word-eating.
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Yann Martel |
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The grand march of progress apparently includes the unfortunate necessity of chopping down every obstacle in its way.
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My heart began to beat like a merry drum and blood started flowing through my veins like cars from a wedding party honking their way through town.
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Ageing is not easy, Sennhora Castro. It's a terrible, incurable pathology. And great love is another pathology. It starts well. It's a most desirable disease. One wouldn't want to do without it. It's like yeast that corrupts the juice of grapes. One loves, one loves, one persists in loving-the incubation period can be very long- and then, with death, comes the heart break. Love must always meet its unwanted end.
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suffering
death
heartbreak
love
diesease
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One discovers weeping - one's weeping personality - only upon weeping. It is a strange discovery, not only to others but to oneself. p 49
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Ageing is not easy, Senhora Castro. It's a terrible, incurable pathology. And great love is another pathology.
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love
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These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile,
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n mn nltqyhm ymkn 'n yGyrwnn, w'Hynan ykwn ltGyyr `myqan l~ HdW 'nn l n`wd l'shkhS 'nfshm b`d dhlk.
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lmdh l'sy'l@ lty nTrHh tfwq l'jwb@ dy'man?
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Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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And then he has nothing to do. After three weeks-or is it a lifetime?-of ceaseless activity, he has nothing to do. A very long sentence, anchored in solid nouns, with countless subordinate clauses, scores of adjectives and adverbs, and bold conjunctions that launched the sentence in a new direction-besides unexpected interludes-has finally, with a surprisingly quiet full stop, come to an end. For an hour or so, sitting outside on the landin..
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You bring joy and pain in equal measure- come aboard if your destination is oblivion. It should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat, if you want. But it's a sad view.
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life
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Everything in me, right down to the pores of my skin, was expressing joy.
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quotes-on-life
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I noticed how those who know the truth are always treated with suspicion and disdain. That was the case with Jesus, of course. But look at old Miss Marple. Always she knows, and everyone is surprised that she does. And the same with Hercule Poirot. How can that ridiculous little man know anything? But he does, he does. It is the triumph of the meek, in Agatha Christie as in the Gospels.
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English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was the music from the streets.
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Kita tentunya juga diperbolehkan merasa ragu. Tapi kita mesti jalan terus. Memilih keraguan sebagai falsafah hidup sama halnya memilih kemandekan sebagai sarana transportasi.
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mandek
ragu
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Nil magnum nisi bonum. Tak ada kemuliaan tanpa kebajikan.
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kebajikan
kemuliaan
mulia
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Antara mencari untung dan melayani masyarakat tidak bisa seiring-sejalan.
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masyarakat
untung
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You see, the penis, it's so graceless, wouldn't you agree? When it's cold and shrivelled up, it looks like W.H. Auden in his old age; when it's hot, it flops and dangles about in a ridiculous way; when it's excited, it looks so pained and earnest you'd think it was going to burst into tears. And the scrotum! To think that something so vital to the survival of the species, fully responsible for 50 per cent of the ingredients--though none of ..
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sex
sexual-organs
gender
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It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them--and then they leap.
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And that wasn't the end of it. There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were something weak and helpless. These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go..
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That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day.
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The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.
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religion
philosophy
zoology
theology
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It is true that those we meet can change us
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Reality escapes us. It's beyond description, even a simple pear. Time eats everything.
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lbw's yHbW lSHb@, wljnwn ylby lnd.
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For example--I wonder--could you tell my jumbled story in exactly one hundred chapters, not one more, not one less? I'll tell you, that's one thing I hate about my nickname, the way that number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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pi
endings
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This was all a bit much for me. The tone was right--loving and brave--but the details seemed bleak. I said nothing. It wasn't for fear of angering Mr. Kumar. I was more afraid that in a few words thrown out he might destroy something that I loved. What if his words had the effect of polio on me? What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.
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Religion?" Mr. Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness."
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Yann Martel |
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Surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle. However much things may appear to change--the sea may shift from whisper to rage, the sky might go from fresh blue to blinding white to darkest black--the geometry never changes. Your gaze is always a radius. The circumference is ever great. In f..
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Yann Martel |
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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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Yann Martel |
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I quite deliberately dressed wild animals in tame costumes of my imagination.
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Yann Martel |
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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Yann Martel |
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a problem of the soul, a heaviness of the heart, a darkness of the conscience
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Yann Martel |
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Ha mi, allampolgarok nem tamogatjuk muveszeinket, akkor felaldozzuk kepzeletunket a durva valosag oltaran, s vegul mar nem hiszunk semmiben, es ertektelen almokat almodunk.
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Es ez meg semmi. Mindig akadnak olyanok, akik felvallaljak, hogy megvedik Istent, mintha a Vegso Valosag, a let fenntarto kerete gyenge es tehetetlen volna. Ezek az emberek elmennek egy lepra torzitotta no mellett, aki par fillerert koldul, elmennek a rongyokba oltozott, utcan lako gyerekek mellett, es azt gondoljak: ,,Hat igen, ez mar csak igy van." De ha felfigyelnek valami Isten elleni apro serelemre, az mar egeszen mas ugy. Az arcuk kiv..
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