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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.

Yann Martel

I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.
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Dream Hands Mistake
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way
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
In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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Air Art Stories
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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Baby Cancer Death Life
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
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it’s true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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Emotional Fiction Real
I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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Beating Felt Rainbow
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
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Fiction Genre Writing
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
You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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Joy Long Measure Pain
I ask you, is it the fig tree’s fault that it’s not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
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Faults Kind Tree
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
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
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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Ambition Art Skulls

Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.

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