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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

Yann Martel

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Gloomy Left Suffering
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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Tiny Vastness Views
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
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
In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.
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Different Minority Notion Project
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 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
I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Left Memories Place
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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Despair Expression Light
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Cheer Graduation Inspiring
Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
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Go Hard Work Letting Writing
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them — and then they leap.
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Atheist Brother Legs
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 can well imagine an athiest’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!” – and the deathbed leap of faith.
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Deathbed Light Self White

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

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