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"It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical."
"A rose trapped inside a fist."
"Look, moonI turned silver for you."
"However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for."
"Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black."
"A sausage is an image of rest, peace and tranquility in stark contrast to the destruction and chaos of everyday life."
Explore more quotes by Yann Martel
"Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can."
"My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all."
"In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match."
"There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all."
"The sad fact is there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone as a murder, the unjust taking of a loved being. And even the luckiest of us will encounter at least one murder in our own lives: our own. It is our fate. We all live a murder mystery of which we are the victim."
"If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams."
"When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite."
"Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression."
"If God on the Cross is God shamming a human tragedy, it turns the Passion of Christ into the Farce of Christ. The death of the Son must be real. Father Martin assured me it was. But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected. The Son must have the taste for death forever in His mouth. The Trinity must be tainted by it; there must be a certain stench at the right hand of God the Father. The horror must be real. Why would God wish that upon Himself? Why not leave death to the mortals? Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love. That was Father Martin's answer."
"It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day."
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