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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.

Yann Martel

Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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Change Humanity Long Office
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 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
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
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
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way
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
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
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
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
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
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
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Cheer Graduation Inspiring
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
We don’t want any invention. We want the ‘straight facts,’ as you say in English.” Isn’t telling about something–using words, English or Japanese–already something of an invention? Isn’t just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
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Country Invention Language People Some Something

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