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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

Yann Martel

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Animal Important Training
I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others – and I am one of those – never give up. We fight and fight and fight.
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Fighting Give Up Loss
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
You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?
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Said Survivor Used
We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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Born Catholic Introducing
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
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
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them — and then they leap.
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Atheist Brother Legs
There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God… These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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Defend Failing People Realizing
For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
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End Fear Memories Real
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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Book Cinema Different
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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Book Fiction Ideas
There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Animal Matter Thinking
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

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

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