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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

Yann Martel

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Cheer Graduation Inspiring
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
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
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that’s creation in frenzy.
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Christianity Looks World
My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Grateful Gratitude Ocean
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
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Envy Reason Sticks
Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion – and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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Art Book Inspired
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
India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.
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Country Imagination Love Possible
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
Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
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Christianity Devotion God Religion
One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy.
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Happy Mannered Mind Possessed Spy
The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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Heart Light Shining

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

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