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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.

Yann Martel

People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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Connected Men People Sea
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
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
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?
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Belief Believe Book Life
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
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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Despair Expression Light
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.
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Dream Hands Mistake
A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal – of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania – but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place.
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Animal Course Jail Tanzania Zoos
Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
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Go Hard Work Letting Writing
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?
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Life Travel Understanding
You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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Hope might Thinking
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
We don’t want any invention. We want the ‘straight facts,’ as you say in English.” Isn’t telling about something–using words, English or Japanese–already something of an invention? Isn’t just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
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Country Invention Language People Some Something
One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy.
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Happy Mannered Mind Possessed Spy
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way

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