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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

Yann Martel

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
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three.
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Christian Practice Two
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Company Madness Misery
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
Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it’s a very limited one. And by and large, it isn’t helpful.
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Division Facts Fiction Helpful Large
The dorado did the most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash all kinds of colours in rapid succession. Blue, green, red, gold, and violet flickered and shimmered neon-like on its surface as it struggled. I felt I was beating a rainbow to death.
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Began Extraordinary Kinds Shimmered Succession
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Envy Reason Sticks
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Civilization Territory Zoos
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
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Dream Goodbye Heart
There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Animal Matter Thinking
You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?
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Said Survivor Used
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
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
Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that’s creation in frenzy.
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Christianity Looks World
We think we live in a global village. We don’t. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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Beautiful Garden Thinking

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

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