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| 5b9bbe8 | 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.. | Yann Martel | ||
| dbae2ed | 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." | Yann Martel | ||
| a684634 | 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. I mock this skull. | Yann Martell | ||
| 8346283 | blnsb@ l~ kl lHywnt, bm fyh lnsn, ltHdyq hw slwk `dy'y. | Yann Martel | ||
| b44e703 | klm zdd nHTT Hlk, tq `qlk l~ lsmw. | Yann Martel | ||
| 277ce89 | 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. | Yann Martel | ||
| 19ccaa8 | Khi ta da chiu nhieu dau don o doi, moi mot noi dau moi se vua nang triu ma cung lai chang la gi. | Yann Martel | ||
| ca79b20 | Ludicrous. I wasn't Tarzan. I was a puny, feeble, vegetarian life form. | Yann Martel | ||
| 04dcc84 | 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.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 3f6fc0e | 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. | Yann Martel | ||
| 6e9842b | 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.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 8ffb9ba | 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. | Yann Martel | ||
| 061f677 | 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. | Yann Martel | ||
| 72ac0ab | 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! | Yann Martel | ||
| 29a93b0 | 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. | Yann Martel | ||
| e7cc4eb | 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.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 91f1c55 | 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 .. | Yann Martel | ||
| f5a56e8 | 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. | Yann Martel | ||
| 3420cf3 | 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. | Yann Martel | ||
| d4b417c | 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. | Yann Martel | ||
| af708b7 | 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. | Yann Martel | ||
| 32e14b2 | 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. | Yann Martel | ||
| 05ab268 | 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,.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 89bb8be | 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. | grief-and-loss | Yann Martel | |
| 0772845 | Kalau nyawa kita sendiri terancam, kemampuan kita berempati jadi tumpul oleh hasrat egois yang amat sangat untuk bertahan hidup. | Yann Martel | ||
| e96b82c | Now he realized that this matter of faith was either radically to be taken seriously or radically not to be taken seriously. | Yann Martel | ||
| ccbbcfc | Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. | life-of-pi | Yann Martel | |
| 0f85694 | What of God's silence? I think it over. I add: An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose. | Yann Martel | ||
| 5b12e5c | Only fear can defeat life. | Yann Martel | ||
| 4868e4b | Memory is a glue: it attaches you to everything, even to what you don't like. | Yann Martel | ||
| e45e5f4 | Above all, don't lose hope | Yann Martel | ||
| 99503b3 | 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. | life | Yann Martel | |
| 39fd668 | 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.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 24523cb | Stories full of metaphors are by writers who play the language like a mandolin for our entertainment, novelists, | Yann Martel | ||
| 5b550b0 | But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it. | Yann Martel | ||
| 543bccb | El hecho de escoger la duda como filosofia de vida es como elegir la inmovilidad como forma de transporte. | Yann Martel | ||
| 2392d5f | As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work. | usability web-design | Steve Krug | |
| 788b02c | She was beginning to understand that it is not enough to love someone deeply; you also have to learn to love them well. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 6abbbae | All war is fratricide, and there is therefore an infinite chain of blame that winds its circuitous route back and forth across the path and under the feet of every people and every nation, so that a people who are the victims of one time become the victimisers a generation later, and newly liberated nations resort immediately to the means of their former oppressors. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 4248cb8 | There was between 1821 and 1913 a prolonged and atrocious holocaust which we have chosen to forget, and from which we have learned absolutely nothing. In 1821, between 26 March and Easter Sunday, in the name of liberty, the southern Greek Christians tortured and massacred 15,000 Greek Muslim civilians, looted their possessions, and burned their dwellings. The Greek hero Kolokotronis boasted without qualm that so many were the corpses that h.. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 6d5bf0c | Dionisio arose reluctantly from his bed, went to the window to see what kind of day it was, and went to the telephone to call the police. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 4e3ee33 | Laska je prechodne silenstvi, vybuchne jako sopka a potom opadne. A kdyz opadne, musis se rozhodnout. Musis zjistit, zdali je vase koreny propleteny takovym zpusobem, ze vas rozchod neni vubec myslitelny. Protoze prave tohle je laska. Laska neni ta bezdechnost, neni to vzruseni, nejsou to halasne sliby vecne vasne, neni to touha parit se ctyriadvacet hodin denne a neni to, kdyz v noci zustanes vzhuru a predstavujes si, ze liba kazdy zahyb t.. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| dce8c3e | It sometimes happens that in relatively powerless and impoverished countries there arise men of enormous vision who are frustrated and offended by the limitations of their lives and seek to reach out for the stars on behalf of themselves and their nations. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| cb12936 | A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish ... well, God knows. Anyway, | Louis de Bernières |