Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
YANN MARTELI did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing–I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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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.
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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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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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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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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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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
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I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.
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Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness–how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I’ve got!
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I would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.
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