Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
YANN MARTELMisery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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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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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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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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If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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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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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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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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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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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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He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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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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First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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