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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.

Yann Martel

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
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Firsts Fit Wonder
For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
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End Fear Memories Real
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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Communication Novelists Pages
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Company Madness Misery
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it’s a sad view.
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Together Views Want
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
Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
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Allies Decision Over You
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
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
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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Inspirational Moving Saving
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
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Animal Important Training
It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.
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Champion Made Night

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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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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