Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.

Yann Martel


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Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others.

Yann Martel


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I concluded, that it was not a dream or a delusion or a misplaced memory or a fancy or any other falsity, but a solid, true thing witnessed while in a weakened highly agitated state.

Yann Martel


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We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It is not the question of courage. It is something constitutional, an ability to let go. It maybe nothing more than life-hungry stupidity.

Yann Martel


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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.

Yann Martel


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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

Yann Martel


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...and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.

Yann Martel


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Another favorite position of his was sitting with his back to me, his rear half resting on the floor of the boat and his front half on the bench, his face buried into the stern, paws right next to his head, looking as if we were playing hide-and-seek and he were the one counting. In this position he tended to lie very still, with only the occasional twitching of his ears to indicate that he is not necessarily sleeping.

Yann Martel


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Instead of coconut yam kootu, why not boiled beef tongue with a mustard sauce?”
“That sounds non-veg.

Yann Martel


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Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by

Yann Martel

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