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

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
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?
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Belief Believe Book Life
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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Inspirational Moving Saving
I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it’s sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It’s a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
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Laborious Process Sometimes Way Writing
I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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Approach Killer Known
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Company Madness Misery
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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Moments Thinking Wonder
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
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
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
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Dancing Toads Trying
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Civilization Territory Zoos
It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.
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Champion Made Night
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.
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Giving Hard Heart Up Work

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

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