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…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.

Yann Martel

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
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Animal Important Training
If you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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Dream Ideas Reality
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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Dream Hands Mistake
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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Book Condemnation Girl Powerful
When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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Pain Sad Unbearable
To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing–I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.
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Father Guidance Lose Supports
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?
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Belief Believe Book Life
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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Movie Love Thinking
I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge).
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Blue Hands Jobs Stomach Vigorously
I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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Believe God Stories
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
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Envy Reason Sticks
He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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Men Shy Taught
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Christianity Religion Rush
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way

…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.

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