science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
YANN MARTELLife will defend itself no matter how small it is.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It’s extraordinarily satisfying.
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First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
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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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Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.
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You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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