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Yann Martel Quotes: If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
         

If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.


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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.



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.

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.



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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.



To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.



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!

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!



We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.



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I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.



If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?



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No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.





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