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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.
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madness
living-things
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Yann Martel |
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The holy word is story, and story is the holy word.
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story
scripture
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Yann Martel |
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I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness
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And I survived because I made a point of forgetting.
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Yann Martel |
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Zawsze znajda sie tacy, ktorzy wezma na siebie obowiazek obrony Boga, jakby Najwyzsza Istota czy podstawa wszelkiego bytu byla czyms slabym i wymagajacym wsparcia. Ludzie ci przechodza obok wdowy przezartej tradem i zebrzacej o kilka pais, mijajac obojetnie koczujace na ulicy dzieci w lachmanach i mysla sobie:"Tak to juz jest na swiecie". Ale jesli wyczuja najlzejsze uchybienie wobec Boga, to calkiem inna sprawa. Czerwienieja na twarzy, dos..
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It was frightening, the extent to which a full belly made for a good mood.
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For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. 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 forg..
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fear
strength-and-courage
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We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more--there is no greater relationship.
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self
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Yann Martel |
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Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven days. Even on a symbolic level, that's creation in a frenzy.
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Yann Martel |
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What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape. 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 have about my nickname, the way the number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can yo..
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Seperti perpustakaan umum, atau museum, kebun binatang bertujuan melayani bidang pendidikan populer serta ilmu pengetahuan.
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perpustakaan
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Cai quan trong o doi la phai ket thuc moi thu cho chin chu. Co the ta moi yen tam ma di duoc. Neu khong thi luc nao trong ta cung day nhung loi muon noi ma chang bao gio noi, va long ta se nang triu an han.
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A plain is what a mountain aims to be: the closest you can come to being in outer space while yet having your feet on this planet.
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grounded
oneness
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Yann Martel |
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Instead of coconut yam kootu, why not boiled beef tongue with a mustard sauce?" "That sounds non-veg."
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Yann Martel |
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Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them-and then they leap. I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemene. If Christ played with doubt, so must we.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 d..
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If Christ played with doubt, so must we. 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. 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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blnsb@ l~ kl lHywnt, bm fyh lnsn, ltHdyq hw slwk `dy'y.
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klm zdd nHTT Hlk, tq `qlk l~ lsmw.
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At last I managed to haul it aboard. It was over three feet long. The bucket was useless. It would fit the dorado like a hat.
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Yann Martel |
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Khi ta da chiu nhieu dau don o doi, moi mot noi dau moi se vua nang triu ma cung lai chang la gi.
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Ludicrous. I wasn't Tarzan. I was a puny, feeble, vegetarian life form.
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One such time I left town and on my way back, at a point where the land was high and I could see the sea to my left and down the road a long ways, I suddenly felt I was in heaven. The spot was in fact no different from when I had passed it not long before, but my way of seeing it had changed. The feeling, a paradoxical mix of pulsing energy and profound peace, was intense and blissful. Whereas before the road, the sea, the trees, the air, t..
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Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.
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Yann Martel |
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Was fur ein Schlag, wenn das Herz eines Menschen mit so etwas fertig werden muss! Wer einen Bruder verliert, der verliert jemanden, mit dem er gemeinsam alt werden konnte, jemanden, der ihm eine Schwagerin, Nichten und Neffen bescheren sollte, Menschen, die den Baum eines Lebens bevolkern und ihm neue Zweige geben sollen. Den Vater zu verlieren heisst den zu verlieren, der dem Leben die Richtung gibt, denjenigen, zu dem man geht, wenn man i..
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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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If there is a change, it is usually for the lesser rather than the greater; many people seem to lose God along life's way.
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Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws of nature. If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood!
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Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others- and I am one of those-never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter what the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's...an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life hungry stupidity.
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Je dois dire un mot sur la peur. C'est le seul adversaire reel de la vie. Il n'y a que la peur qui puisse vaincre la vie. C'est une ennemie habile et perfide, et je le sais bien. Elle n'a aucune decence, ne respecte ni lois ni conventions, ne manifeste aucune clemence. Elle attaque votre point le plus faible, qu'elle trouve avec une facilite deconcertante. Elle nait d'abord et invariablement dans votre esprit. Un moment vous vous sentez cal..
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Ensuite, la peur se tourne vers votre corps, qui sent deja que quelque chose de terrible et de mauvais est entrain de survenir. Deja, votre souffle s'est envole comme un oiseau et votre cran a fui en rampant comme un serpent. Maintenant, vous avez la langue qui s'affale comme un opossum, tandis que votre machoire commence a galoper sur place. Vos oreilles n'entendent plus. Vos muscles se mettent a trembler comme si vous aviez la malaria et ..
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I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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Und dann war da die Frau, der ein Lowe den Sari auszog. Sie drehte sich wie ein Jojo, denn dem todlichen Ende zog sie die todliche Schande dann doch vor. [...] Verletzt wurde sie nicht; zahlreiche Manner eilten begeistert zu Hilfe.
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Another favorite position of his was sitting with his back to me, his rear half resting on the floor of the boat and his front half on the bench, his face buried into the stern, paws right next to his head, looking as if we were playing hide-and-seek and he were the one counting. In this position he tended to lie very still, with only the occasional twitching of his ears to indicate that he is not necessarily sleeping.
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I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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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 choosingn immobility as a means of transportation.
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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 while 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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Grief is a disease. We were riddled with its pockmarks, tormented by its fevers, broken by its blows. It ate at us like maggots, attacked us like lice- we scratched ourselves to the edge of madness. In the process we became as withered as crickets, as tired as old dogs.
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grief-and-loss
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Yann Martel |
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Kalau nyawa kita sendiri terancam, kemampuan kita berempati jadi tumpul oleh hasrat egois yang amat sangat untuk bertahan hidup.
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Yann Martel |
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Now he realized that this matter of faith was either radically to be taken seriously or radically not to be taken seriously.
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Yann Martel |
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Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer.
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life-of-pi
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What of God's silence? I think it over. I add: An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose.
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Yann Martel |
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Only fear can defeat life.
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Yann Martel |
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Memory is a glue: it attaches you to everything, even to what you don't like.
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Yann Martel |
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Above all, don't lose hope
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Yann Martel |