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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

Yann Martel

We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Animal Important Training
And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle.
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Blue Castaway Moon Night
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Gloomy Left Suffering
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
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Illusion Months Week
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
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Heart Nerves Pain
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
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
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
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
Music is a bird’s answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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Answers Bird Mind
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Company Madness Misery
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
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Bully People Politeness
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

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

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