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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

Yann Martel

Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
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
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
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
We don’t want any invention. We want the ‘straight facts,’ as you say in English.” Isn’t telling about something–using words, English or Japanese–already something of an invention? Isn’t just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
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Country Invention Language People Some Something
Once you’ve been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.
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Entirely Leave Natural Once Pleasing
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
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Cheer Graduation Inspiring
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
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
As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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Movie Love Thinking
That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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Essence Fiction Reality
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
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
I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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Grace People Zoos
One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy.
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Happy Mannered Mind Possessed Spy

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

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