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Miert koltoznek el az emberek? Mi veszi ra oket, hogy feltepjek gyokereiket es elhagyjanak mindent, amit ismernek, a latohataron tuli ismeretlenert? Miert masszak meg a formasagoknak e Mount Everestjet, amitol az ember koldusnak erzi magat? Miert lepnek be ebbe a dzsungelbe, ahol minden uj, idegen es nehez? A valasz ugyanaz az egesz vilagon: az emberek a jobb elet remenyeben koltoznek el.
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You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
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The word 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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I thought I knew not only her habits but also her limits. This display of ferocity, of savage courage, made me realize that I was wrong. All my life I had known only a part of her.
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fear
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That I was a swimmer made no waves; it seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers.
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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.
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there's sunlight and shade, spots and patterns of colour, your mind is elsewhere-so you don't make out what is right in front of you.
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Mondanom kell valamit a felelemrol. Ez az elet egyetlen igazi ellensege. Csak a felelem tudja legyozni az eletet. Okos, alattomos ellenseg, en aztan tudom. Nincs benne tisztesseg, kimelet, nem ismer torvenyt, sem illendoseget, nem ad irgalmat. Az ember leggyengebb pontjara tamad, tevedhetetlenul, konnyeden megtalalja. Mindig az agyban kezdodik. Egyik pillanatban nyugodtnak, magabiztosnak, boldognak erezzuk magunkat. Aztan a felelem, a csend..
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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
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story
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but thee passing shadow of a cloud.
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Mamaji remembered, Father dreamed.
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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.
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Yann Martel |
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I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while.
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Machen Sie weiter, bis das Tier, das Ihnen zusetzt - ob Tiger, ob Rhinozeros - grun vor Seekranheit ist. Sie mussen horen, wie es sich die Seele aus dem Leibe spuckt.
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And so, when she first heard of Hare Krishnas, she didn't hear right. She heard "Hairless Christians", and that is what they were to her for many years. when I corrected her, I told her that in fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims"
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Az emberek a kimerito, elnyuvo szorongas miatt koltoznek el. A miatt a mardoso erzes miatt, hogy mindegy, milyen kemenyen dolgoznak, erofeszitesuk nem hoz semmi eredmenyt, hogy amit egy even at felepitenek, egy nap alatt ledontik masok. A miatt a sejtelem miatt, hogy a jovo el van zarva, hogy ok meg csak boldogulhatnak, de a gyerekeik mar nem. A miatt az erzes miatt, hogy semmi sem fog valtozni, hogy boldogok es jomoduak csak mashol lehetne..
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A dolgok nem ugy alakultak, ahogy kellett volna, de mit tehet az ember? Ugy kell fogadnunk az eletet, ahogy jon, es amennyire lehet, ki kell hoznunk belole a legjobbat.
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A vilag nem egyszeruen olyan, amilyen. Olyan, amilyennek felfogjuk, nem? S azzal, hogy valamit felfogunk, valamit hozza is teszunk, nem igaz? Nem valik-e ettol tortenette az elet is?
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Readers will easily recognize the cover of a book they've read, but in a cafe that man over there, is that...is that...well, it's hard to tell - doesn't he have long hair? - oh, he's gone.
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T]o be a castaway is to be caught up in grim and exhausting opposites.
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So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals of the story without animals?
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Nem! Nem! Nem! A szenvedesem igenis szamit. Elni akarok. Muszaj belekevernem az eletemet a vilagegyetem eletebe. Az elet egy kemlelonyilas, az egyetlen pici ut egy vegtelensegbe - hogyan hagyhatnam ki ezt a kurta, szuk pillantast, amit a vilagra vethetek? Nekem csak ez jutott!
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Despite attending a nominally Christian school, I had not yet been inside a church--and I wasn't about to dare the deed now. I knew very little about the religion. It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools.
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Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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While Odo has mastered the simple human trick of making porridge, Peter has learned the difficult animal skill of doing nothing. He's learned to unshackle himself from the race of time and contemplate time itself. As far as he can tell, that's what Odo spends most of his time doing: being in time, like one sits by a river, watching the water go by. It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.
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His heart is expended that way, of loving the single, particular individual. He loved Clara with every fibre of his being, but now he has nothing left. Or rather, he has learned to live with her absence, and he has no wish to fill that absence; that would be like losing her a second time. Instead he would prefer to be kind to everyone, a less personal but broader love.
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kindnessss
loss-of-love
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If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on."
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I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.
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My fingers, which a second before had been taste buds savouring the food a little ahead of my mouth, became dirty under his gaze. They froze like criminals caught in the act. I didn't dare lick them. I wiped them guiltily on my napkin. He had no idea how deeply those words wounded me. They were like nails being driven into my flesh. I picked up the knife and fork. I had hardly ever used such instruments. My hands trembled. My sambar lost it..
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What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net of there's so little fish to catch?
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logic
reason
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I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen every day. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen.
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There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all.
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My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all.
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memorable
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They were dead; I could no longer deny it. What a thing to acknowledge in your heart! To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures to people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches..
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My baptism was a slightly awkward affair. . . . The water trickled down my face and down my neck; though just a beakers worth, it had the refreshing effect of a monsoon rain.
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Bapu Ghandi said, "All religions are true." I just want to love God," I blurted out, and looked down, red in the face."
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I love my prayer rug. . . . because it helped me remember that the earth is the creation of God and sacred the same all over.
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Peter has learned the difficult animal skill of doing nothing. He's learned to unshackle himself of the race of time and contemplate time itself. [..] It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.
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time
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And so the explanation for why Agatha Christie is the most popular author in the history of the world. Her appeal is as wide and her dissemination as great as the Bible's, because she is a modern apostle, a female one--about time, after two thousand years of men blathering on. And this new apostle answers the same questions Jesus answered: What are we to do with death? Because murder mysteries are always resolved in the end, the mystery nea..
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grief
jesus-christ
loss
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He weeps like a child, catching his breath and hiccuping,his face drenched with tears.We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more--there is no greater relationship. [..] We are risen does, not fallen angels. Tomas is strangled by loneliness.
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faith
veganism
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You already are, Piscine--in your heart. Whoever meets Christ in good faith is a Christian. Here in Munnar you met Christ.
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Why, Islam is nothing but an easy sort of exercise, I thought. Hot-weather yoga for the Bedouins. Arenas without sweat, heaven without strain,
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It felt good to bring my forehead to the ground. Immediately it felt like a deeply religious contact.
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Krasivaia i pechal'naia. Ved' ona navsegda rasstavalas' s Indiei - s ee zharoi i mussonami, risovymi poliami i rekoi Kauveri, s ee poberezh'iami i kamennymi khramami, volov'imi upriazhkami i raznotsvetnymi furgonchikami, s druz'iami i znakomymi lavochnikami, s ulitsei Neru i bul'varom Guberta Salai, - da malo li s chem eshchio! S takoi privychnoi, takoi liubioi Indiei.
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