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.
Yann MartelFirst wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
Yann MartelMy ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.
Yann MartelSlice 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 MartelTags: philosophy
...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
Yann MartelI must go the washroom. I've shaken a lot of hands.
Yann MartelTo choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Yann MartelTags: life
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. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
Yann MartelThe individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.
Yann MartelTags: life philosophical
...he found it where he should have looked first, on the Internet, which is a net indeed, one that can be cast further than the eye can see and be retrieved no matter how heavy the hall, its magical mesh never breaking under the strain but always bringing in the most amazing catch.
Yann MartelTags: internet
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