Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
YANN MARTELTo 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.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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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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My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?
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How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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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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I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others – and I am one of those – never give up. We fight and fight and fight.
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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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Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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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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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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There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God… These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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