The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
YANN MARTELLife 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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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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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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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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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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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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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?
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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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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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At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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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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Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness–how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I’ve got!
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