You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
YANN MARTELThe 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.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
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You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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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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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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We think we live in a global village. We don’t. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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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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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful.
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I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
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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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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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