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Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

Yann Martel

I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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Grace People Zoos
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness–how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I’ve got!
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Tiny Vastness Views
Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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Change Humanity Long Office
Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
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Allies Decision Over You
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Company Madness Misery
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it’s true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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Emotional Fiction Real
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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Connected Men People Sea
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Transportation War Way
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.
YANN MARTEL

Clothes Hate Needs
You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?
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Said Survivor Used
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Bully People Politeness
When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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Pain Sad Unbearable
It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Amazing Wall Willpower
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

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