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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

Yann Martel

I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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Beautiful Mosques Sunday
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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Father Guidance Lose Supports
I ask you, is it the fig tree’s fault that it’s not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
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Faults Kind Tree
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.
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Dream Hands Mistake
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
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
I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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Language Perfection Sea Water
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
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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Book Go Important Letting Life Of Pi
Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.
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Dream Hands Survival
He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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Men Shy Taught
When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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Pain Sad Unbearable
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Invention Mother True Very
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

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