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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

There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It’s extraordinarily satisfying.
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Fall Feels Sentence Way
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Christianity Religion Rush
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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Book Go Important Letting Life Of Pi
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
My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Grateful Gratitude Ocean
…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Divine Everything Trace
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
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
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
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.
YANN MARTEL

Change Humanity Long Office
You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
YANN MARTEL

Joy Long Measure Pain
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
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Firsts Fit Wonder
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
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

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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