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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

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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
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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Baby Cancer Death Life
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
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Dancing Toads Trying
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Christianity Religion Rush
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
A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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Inspirational Life Principles
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
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
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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Inspirational Moving Saving
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
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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Ambition Art Skulls
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
It’s hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it’s hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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Actors Potters Powerful
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
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
To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing–I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.
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Father Guidance Lose Supports

My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

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