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It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

Yann Martel

If you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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Dream Ideas Reality
The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?
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Life Travel Understanding
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
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
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Life Lifeboat
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
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.
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Clothes Hate Needs
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it’s true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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Emotional Fiction Real
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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Inspirational Moving Saving
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Hinduism Jesus Muhammad
I was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.
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Giving Hard Heart Up Work
…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Divine Everything Trace
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Gloomy Left Suffering
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
Music is a bird’s answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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Answers Bird Mind

It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

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