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Life is Quotes by Yann Martel

12 Life is quotes by Yann Martel

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Yann Martel tackles "Life is" with a storyteller’s eye, turning everyday moments into vivid snapshots. Across twelve brief reflections, he mixes curiosity, wonder, and a hint of the surreal, making the page a quick spark for readers who love narrative depth.

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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

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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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Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things?…

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“My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind…

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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…

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

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If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you…

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Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between…

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I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now…

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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.…

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If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to…

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If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard…

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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…

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“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.”

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“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws…

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“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were…

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“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and…

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“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open…

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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of…

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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

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“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with…

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