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I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things.

Yann Martel

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
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards
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
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.
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Add Hearing Two Unexpected
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
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
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Transportation War Way
…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Divine Everything Trace
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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Believe Life Love
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
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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Animal Stories Together
There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God… These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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Defend Failing People Realizing
You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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Hope might Thinking
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
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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Communication Novelists Pages

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