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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

Yann Martel

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.
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Dream Hands Survival
I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Left Memories Place
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it’s true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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Emotional Fiction Real
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
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
The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.
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Animal Mind Thinking
I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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Believe God Stories
How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Invention Mother True Very
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
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
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
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Beens City Evil People
That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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Essence Fiction Reality
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

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