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It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.

Yann Martel

If you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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Dream Ideas Reality
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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Connected Men People Sea
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
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Greater Happiness Salvation
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Transportation War Way
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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Journey Saving Suffering
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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Allies Decision Over You
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
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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Communication Novelists Pages
My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Grateful Gratitude Ocean
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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Christianity Looks World
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.
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Dream Hands Mistake
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
I would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.
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Christians Incompatible Practice Religions

It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.

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It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.

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