I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
YANN MARTELPeople always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.
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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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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek.
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle.
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There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.
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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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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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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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