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Yann Martel

I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It’s a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.
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Blood Boys Religious
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
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 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
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Gloomy Left Suffering
Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that’s creation in frenzy.
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Christianity Looks World
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
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
We think we live in a global village. We don’t. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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Beautiful Garden Thinking
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Animal Important Training
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Beens City Evil People
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
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
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.
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Dream Hands Mistake

Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.

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