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You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

Yann Martel

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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Fiction Mean Play Reality
I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others – and I am one of those – never give up. We fight and fight and fight.
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Fighting Give Up Loss
My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Book Salvation Wish
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Firsts Fit Wonder
How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Invention Mother True Very
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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Book Cinema Different
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
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.
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Clothes Hate Needs
You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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Joy Long Measure Pain
It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.
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Champion Made Night
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Christianity Religion Rush
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
Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality – you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
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Country Reading Reality
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Envy Reason Sticks
Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
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Christianity Devotion God Religion
The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?
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Life Travel Understanding

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

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