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Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.

Yann Martel

Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
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
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Beens City Evil People
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
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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Book Go Important Letting Life Of Pi
It’s hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it’s hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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Actors Potters Powerful
For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
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End Fear Memories Real
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
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 have a story that will make you believe in God.
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Believe God Stories
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Bully People Politeness
It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Amazing Wall Willpower
…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Divine Everything Trace
Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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Beats Reason Risk

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.

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Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.

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