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People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.

Yann Martel

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.
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Champion Made Night
…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Divine Everything Trace
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Transportation War Way
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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Earth Expression Grace
I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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Approach Killer Known
Once you’ve been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.
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Entirely Leave Natural Once Pleasing
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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Despair Expression Light
I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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Country Four People Years
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Envy Reason Sticks
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
To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches.
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Brother Mother Sorry
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
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Book Life Names Sometimes
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards
Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
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Journey Saving Suffering

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