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

Yann Martel

I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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Air Doubt Grateful
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Book Salvation Wish
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
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
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Heart Nerves Pain
I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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Approach Killer Known
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way
How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Invention Mother True Very
I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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Grace People Zoos
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love – but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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Faith Go God Letting Opening Up
Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Greater Happiness Salvation
Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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Dramatic Special Unlimited
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
That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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Essence Fiction Reality
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Life Lifeboat
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

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

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