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Yann Martel

And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle.
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Blue Castaway Moon Night
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
Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.
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Art Book Hate InterAction
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
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
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Book Life Names Sometimes
I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster.
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Crackle Faster Forest Girl Jealous Music Sweet
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
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Element Games Simple
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.
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Doing Good Happy Knows
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
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
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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Pain Sad Unbearable
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Transportation War Way
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Bully People Politeness
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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Go Heart Letting Otherwise Words

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