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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

Yann Martel

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
You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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Joy Long Measure Pain
It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
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Book Life Names Sometimes
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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Heart Light Shining
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
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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Air Doubt Grateful
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed.
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Broken Properly Taken Years
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
…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Divine Everything Trace
I was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.
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Giving Hard Heart Up Work
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Gloomy Left Suffering
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Life Lifeboat
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
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
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

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

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