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India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

Yann Martel

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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Inspirational Life Principles
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Amazing Wall Willpower
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches.
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Brother Mother Sorry
Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality – you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
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Country Reading Reality
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Envy Reason Sticks
We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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Born Catholic Introducing
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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Generations Seeing Shock Soul
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
How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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Broken Spirit Long Water
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science
Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
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Astonishing Frightening Indignation
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

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India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

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