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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.

Yann Martel

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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Dramatic Special Unlimited
Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion – and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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Art Book Inspired
Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality – you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
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Country Reading Reality
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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Communication Novelists Pages
I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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Language Perfection Sea Water
If you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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Dream Ideas Reality
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Animal Important Training
The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three.
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Christian Practice Two
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science
The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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Heart Light Shining
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Animal Matter Thinking
In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed.
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Broken Properly Taken Years
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Envy Reason Sticks
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally

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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