Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.

Yann Martel


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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

Yann Martel

Stichwörter: love life-and-death



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And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge.

Yann Martel


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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Physically it is extraordinarily arduous, and morally it is killing. You must make adjustments if you want to survive. Much becomes expendable. You get happiness where you can. You reach a point where you're at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and you feel you're the luckiest person on earth. Why? Because at your feet you have a tiny dead fish.

Yann Martel


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But I don't insist. I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

Yann Martel

Stichwörter: religion



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I'm afraid the popularity of the domestic cat would drop very quickly if little kitty could roar its displeasure.

Yann Martel


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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

Yann Martel

Stichwörter: fear life fearlessness fearless



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The truth of life is that Brahman is no different from atman, the spiritual force within us, what you might call the soul.

Yann Martel


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A germ of religious exaltation, no bigger than a mustard seed.

Yann Martel


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If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

Yann Martel


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