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I felt I was beating a rainbow to death

Yann Martel

At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
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Moments Thinking Wonder
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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Beautiful Jealous Life
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness–how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I’ve got!
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Tiny Vastness Views
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
I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge).
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Blue Hands Jobs Stomach Vigorously
You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?
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Said Survivor Used
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
Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Greater Happiness Salvation
It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.
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Champion Made Night
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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Fiction Mean Play Reality
I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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Country Four People Years
In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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Air Art Stories
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Book Salvation Wish
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small

I felt I was beating a rainbow to death

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