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I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge).

Yann Martel

When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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Pain Sad Unbearable
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards
I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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Believe God Stories
I 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.
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Illusion Months Week
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it’s true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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Emotional Fiction Real
I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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Beating Felt Rainbow
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Cheer Graduation Inspiring
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
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Gloomy Left Suffering
I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things.
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Clothes Hate Needs
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
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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Go Heart Letting Otherwise Words
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Christianity Religion Rush
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Civilization Territory Zoos
I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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Approach Killer Known

I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge).

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I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge).

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