The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three.
YANN MARTELWar subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It’s extraordinarily satisfying.
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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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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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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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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The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?
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I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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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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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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