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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

Yann Martel

…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Divine Everything Trace
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
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them — and then they leap.
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Atheist Brother Legs
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Life Lifeboat
The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it’s like to be a woman doesn’t strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.
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Crazy Explore Men Sex
How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Invention Mother True Very
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
You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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Joy Long Measure Pain
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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Baby Cancer Death Life
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
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
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
YANN MARTEL

Hinduism Jesus Muhammad

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