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You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

Yann Martel

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
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
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
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Amazing Wall Willpower
My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Book Salvation Wish
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Hinduism Jesus Muhammad
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Civilization Territory Zoos
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
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Dancing Toads Trying
I was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.
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Giving Hard Heart Up Work
I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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Air Doubt Grateful
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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Answers Bird Mind
You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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Hope might 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 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.
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Illusion Months Week

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

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