Yann Martel quotes - page 3

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. (Yann Martel)
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.
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Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
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High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first. (Yann Martel)
I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by.
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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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.. the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
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Don't worry about being good.... Aspire to be authentic.
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A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.
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Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark. (Yann Martel)
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap.
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Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.
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The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
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Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.
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