…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
YANN MARTELWe were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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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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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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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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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
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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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When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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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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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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A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal – of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania – but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place.
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Stories–individual stories, family stories, national stories–are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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