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We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.

Yann Martel

I can well imagine an athiest’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!” – and the deathbed leap of faith.
YANN MARTEL

Deathbed Light Self White
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Life Lifeboat
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.
YANN MARTEL

Air Doubt Grateful
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
YANN MARTEL

Animal Important Training
How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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Broken Spirit Long Water
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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Fiction Mean Play Reality
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
YANN MARTEL

Cheer Graduation Inspiring
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.
YANN MARTEL

Art Book Hate InterAction
He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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Men Shy Taught
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
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
…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Divine Everything Trace
I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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Beating Felt Rainbow
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
YANN MARTEL

Bully People Politeness
I was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.
YANN MARTEL

Giving Hard Heart Up Work
For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
YANN MARTEL

End Fear Memories Real

We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.

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