…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
YANN MARTELIt’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It’s extraordinarily satisfying.
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My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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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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We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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