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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

Yann Martel

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love – but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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Faith Go God Letting Opening Up
Stories–individual stories, family stories, national stories–are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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Animal Stories Together
We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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Born Catholic Introducing
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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Approach Killer Known
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
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
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Bully People Politeness
I ask you, is it the fig tree’s fault that it’s not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
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Faults Kind Tree
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
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
India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.
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Country Imagination Love Possible
There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It’s extraordinarily satisfying.
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Fall Feels Sentence Way
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

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

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