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Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.

Yann Martel

My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Grateful Gratitude Ocean
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Envy Reason Sticks
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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Boredom Opposites Swings
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
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Bully People Politeness
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
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Dancing Toads Trying
Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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Change Humanity Long Office
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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Beautiful Jealous Life
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
It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.
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Champion Made Night
I have a story that will make you believe in God.
YANN MARTEL

Believe God Stories

Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.

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Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.

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