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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

I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others – and I am one of those – never give up. We fight and fight and fight.
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Fighting Give Up Loss
How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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Broken Spirit Long Water
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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Ambition Art Skulls
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
Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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Beats Reason Risk
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
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
I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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Beating Felt Rainbow
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.
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Dream Hands Survival
Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
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Astonishing Frightening Indignation
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
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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Book Cinema Different
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 reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Envy Reason Sticks
In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed.
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Broken Properly Taken Years

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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