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My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.

Yann Martel

Music is a bird’s answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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Answers Bird Mind
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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Book Go Important Letting Life Of Pi
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It’s a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.
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Blood Boys Religious
Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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Dramatic Special Unlimited
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
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Dancing Toads Trying
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
You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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Joy Long Measure Pain
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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Book Fiction Ideas
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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Communication Novelists Pages
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
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 death.
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Began Extraordinary Kinds Shimmered Succession
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
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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Inspirational Life Principles
The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
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Dark Moon Stars

My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.

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