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The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?

Yann Martel

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
I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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Beating Felt Rainbow
When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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Pain Sad Unbearable
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
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
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
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
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
How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Invention Mother True Very
If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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Believe Life Love
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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Baby Cancer Death Life
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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Ambition Art Skulls
Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
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Christianity Devotion God Religion
It’s hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it’s hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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Actors Potters Powerful
I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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Country Four People Years
It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Amazing Wall Willpower

The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?

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The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?

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