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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.

Yann Martel

Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
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
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Cheer Graduation Inspiring
And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle.
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Blue Castaway Moon Night
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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Fighting Give Up Loss
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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Different Minority Notion Project
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
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness–how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I’ve got!
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Tiny Vastness Views
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
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Envy Reason Sticks
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
If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers.
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Animal City Crocodile Fall Ostriches
I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things.
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Clothes Hate Needs
Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.
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Art Book Hate InterAction
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Christianity Religion Rush
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty

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