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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.

Yann Martel

The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.
YANN MARTEL

Animal Mind Thinking
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
There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Animal Matter Thinking
My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Grateful Gratitude Ocean
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
I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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Believe God Stories
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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Boredom Opposites Swings
I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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Language Perfection Sea Water
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
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Beens City Evil People
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Animal Important Training
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
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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Go Heart Letting Otherwise Words
I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge).
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Blue Hands Jobs Stomach Vigorously
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Bully People Politeness
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Envy Reason Sticks

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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