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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.

Yann Martel

…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Divine Everything Trace
You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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Hope might Thinking
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
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Dream Goodbye Heart
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
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
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
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Greater Happiness Salvation
Stories–individual stories, family stories, national stories–are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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Animal Stories Together
Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.
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Art Book Hate InterAction
You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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Joy Long Measure Pain
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
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers.
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Animal City Crocodile Fall Ostriches
I chose the name Pi because it’s an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a “rational” understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, “irrational” yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.
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Irrational Names Numbers Understanding

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.

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