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'tHd~ 'n yfhm 'y kn rwHnyt lslm , wl yHbh . nh dyn ry'` qy'm `l~ l'khw@ wltfny
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life-lessons
religion
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Love is a house with many rooms, this room to feed the love, this one to entertain it, this one to clean it, this one to dress it, this one to allow it to rest, and each of these rooms can also just as well be the room for laughing or the room for listening or the room for apologizing or the room for intimate togetherness, and, of course, there are the rooms for the new members of the household.
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Yann Martel |
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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind ..
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Yann Martel |
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Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone.
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Yann Martel |
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We are all born like Catholics, aren't we--in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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Yann Martel |
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Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
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Yann Martel |
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animals don't escape from somewhere but from something
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Yann Martel |
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I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
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Yann Martel |
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I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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Yann Martel |
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Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
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Yann Martel |
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.
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Yann Martel |
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Yann Martel |
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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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fight
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Yann Martel |
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I felt like I was beating a rainbow to death.
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Yann Martel |
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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent.
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life-and-living
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Yann Martel |
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My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.
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Yann Martel |
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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life-of-pi
survival
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Yann Martel |
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I am a Hindu because of sculptured cones of red kumkum powder and baskets of yellow turmeric nuggets, because of garlands of flowers and pieces of broken coconut, because of the clanging of bells to announce one's arrival to God, because of the whine of the reedy nadaswaram and the beating of drums, because of the patter of bare feet against stone floors down dark corridors pierced by shafts of sunlight, because of the fragrance of incense,..
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Yann Martel |
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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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Yann Martel |
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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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Yann Martel |
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Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.
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Yann Martel |
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I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
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life-and-living
life-lessons
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Yann Martel |
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My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.
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Yann Martel |
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In his entirely personal experience of them, English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was from the streets. Which is to stay, stab his heart and it would bleed French, slice his brain open and its convolutions would be lined with English and German, and touch his hands and they would feel Spanish.
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Yann Martel |
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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. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day.
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regret
saying-goodbye
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Yann Martel |
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.
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Yann Martel |
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I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn't have the stomach to use the sharp edge). The dorado did the most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash all kinds of colours in rapid succession. Blue, green, red, gold, and violet flickered and shimmered neon-like on its surface as it struggled. I felt I was beating a rainbow to d..
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Yann Martel |
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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 or the story without animals?
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inner-peace
search-for-truth
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Yann Martel |
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People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others.Because of the impression that the future is blocked up,that they might do alright but not their children.Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible only somewhere else..
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Yann Martel |
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How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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Yann Martel |
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I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
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Yann Martel |
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Come aboard if your destination is oblivion - it should be our next stop.
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Yann Martel |
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get.
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can-get
death
grab
jealous
life
life-lessons
possessive
tiger
zoo
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Yann Martel |
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I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.
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Yann Martel |
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If we, citizens do not support our artists, then we sacrifice out imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
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Yann Martel |
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No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
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Yann Martel |
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If we citizens do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the alter of crude reality, and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
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Yann Martel |
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If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, "Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go!" -- do you think they would shout and dance for joy? They wouldn't. Birds are not free. The people you've just evicted would sputter, "With what right do you throw us out? This is our home. We own it. We have lived here for years. We're calling the police, you scoundrel."
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Yann Martel |
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Yann Martel |
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Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative.
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Yann Martel |
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Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
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Yann Martel |
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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Yann Martel |
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What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.
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god
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Yann Martel |
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How strange, this habit of weeping. Do animals weep? Surely they feel sadness--but do they express it with tears? He doubts it. He has never heard of a weeping cat or dog, or of a weeping wild animal. It seems to be a uniquely human trait. He doesn't see what purpose it serves. He weeps hard, even violently, and at the end of it, what? Desolate tiredness. A handkerchief soaked in tears and mucus. Red eyes for everyone to notice. And weeping..
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Yann Martel |