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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

Yann Martel

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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Allies Decision Over You
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
Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Greater Happiness Salvation
Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
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Astonishing Frightening Indignation
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Christianity Religion Rush
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
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
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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Communication Novelists Pages
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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Broken Spirit Long Water
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Hinduism Jesus Muhammad
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
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
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Life Lifeboat
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
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

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