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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

Yann Martel

I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving.
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Brother Children Moving Presence
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Beens City Evil People
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Cheer Graduation Inspiring
I would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.
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Christians Incompatible Practice Religions
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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Boredom Opposites Swings
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Hinduism Jesus Muhammad
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
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
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Heart Nerves Pain
My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Grateful Gratitude Ocean
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
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
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Life Lifeboat
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Animal Matter Thinking
I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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Air Doubt Grateful

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

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