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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.

Yann Martel

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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Dramatic Special Unlimited
I can well imagine an athiest’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!” – and the deathbed leap of faith.
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Deathbed Light Self White
There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God… These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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Defend Failing People Realizing
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.
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Country Imagination Love Possible
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Animal Important Training
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Life Lifeboat
And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle.
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Blue Castaway Moon Night
Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Greater Happiness Salvation
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
In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.
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Different Minority Notion Project
I chose the name Pi because it’s an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a “rational” understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, “irrational” yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.
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Irrational Names Numbers Understanding
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
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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Despair Expression Light

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.

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