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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.

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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
Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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Beats Reason Risk
I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.
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Earth Expression Grace
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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Boredom Opposites Swings
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
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 thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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Air Doubt Grateful
At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
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Moments Thinking Wonder
Music is a bird’s answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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Answers Bird Mind
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science
How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Invention Mother True Very
The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.
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Animal Mind Thinking
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
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
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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Communication Novelists Pages

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