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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?

Yann Martel

Stories–individual stories, family stories, national stories–are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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Animal Stories Together
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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Book Go Important Letting Life Of Pi
I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Left Memories Place
The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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Heart Light Shining
I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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Beating Felt Rainbow
The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
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Dark Moon Stars
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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Book Cinema Different
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.
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Doing Good Happy Knows
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Firsts Fit Wonder
Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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Change Humanity Long Office
You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?
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Said Survivor Used
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
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Dream Goodbye Heart
Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion – and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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Art Book Inspired
Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
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Christianity Devotion God Religion
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small

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