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Yann Martel

"Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away."

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"Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away."

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"When we become quiet at the collapsed value system in our nation, iniquity and injustice would eventually overrun that nation if action is not taken promptly."

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"Why should i blame world, if i get wrong to recognize true and real faces of people."

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"Our head is designed to broaden our perspective regarding the world around us."

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"Losing your job is an awesome opportunity to look inside yourself and make new discoveries."

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"You cannot see God until you notice people."

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"This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with nothing to do."

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"Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hears men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil?"

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"A heartful mind can always see better than mindless eyes."

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"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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"So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?"
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"Trees were not hard, irritable things, but discreetly orgasmic beings moaning at a level too deep for our brutish ears. And flowers were quick explosive orgasms, like making love in the shower."
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"Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?"
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"There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is."
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"To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken."
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"Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer."
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"Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we draw, is another. History can be many things, depending on how we read it, just as the future can be many things, depending on how we live it. There is no inevitability to any historical occurrence, only what people will allow to take place. And it is by dreaming first that we get to new realities."
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"Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?"
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"If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."
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