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If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers.

Yann Martel

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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Broken Spirit Long Water
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek.
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Book Condemnation Girl Powerful
He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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Men Shy Taught
In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed.
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Broken Properly Taken Years
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.
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Doing Good Happy Knows
My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Grateful Gratitude Ocean
When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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Pain Sad Unbearable
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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Believe Life Love
I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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Approach Killer Known
I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.
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Earth Expression Grace
I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Left Memories Place
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Bully People Politeness
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
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Element Games Simple

If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers.

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If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers.

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