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In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed.

Yann Martel

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
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don’t, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
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Acting Book Imagination
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
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Element Games Simple
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
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
I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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Approach Killer Known
We think we live in a global village. We don’t. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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Beautiful Garden Thinking
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love – but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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Faith Go God Letting Opening Up
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
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.
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Add Hearing Two Unexpected
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
A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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Inspirational Life Principles
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
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards

In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed.

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In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed.

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