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Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious

Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious
– Yann Martel

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  1. When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. – Yann Martel
  2. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get. – Yann Martel
  3. There’s only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation. – Andrew Loomis
  4. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  5. Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. – Yann Martel
  6. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  7. I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye. – Yann Martel
  8. I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. – Yann Martel
  9. When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. – Yann Martel
  10. There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. – Yann Martel
  11. I knew very little about the religion. [Christianity] It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools. – Yann Martel
  12. Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. – Yann Martel
  13. To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken. – Yann Martel
  14. We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more–there is no greater relationship. – Yann Martel
  15. Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn’t stay dry. – Yann Martel
  16. My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described. – Yann Martel
  17. The holy word is story, and story is the holy word. – Yann Martel
  18. My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all. – Yann Martel
  19. The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists. – Yann Martel
  20. Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. – Yann Martel
  21. As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound. – Yann Martel
  22. The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals. – Yann Martel
  23. In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match. – Yann Martel
  24. All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. – Yann Martel
  25. All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. – Yann Martel
  26. A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ. – Ann Voskamp
  27. Life as time passes may become stale that’s why we have got to believe that the best things are yet to come. – Roxcy Joy Afable
  28. It is love and reason,’ I said,’fleeing from all the madness of war. – HG Wells
  29. The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  30. Happiness is.. looking at the closing door, then bolting them from outside and fleeing. – Vikrmn
  31. Or is what remains in me like a defeated army,Fleeing in disarray from victory already won? – Bonhoeffer Dietrich
  32. Because we are made in God’s image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves. – Kathleen Norris
  33. The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I’m beginning to feel scared again. – SA Tawks
  34. Don’t pass on your passions, to settle in the stale normality. Endure. Strive. Ensure. – Anthony Liccione
  35. Lucas took a tentative sip of his coffee. It tasted like an otter had pissed in a tea urn and it had been left to go stale over a prolonged period. – Adam Maxwell
  36. A heart grows flat and stale from too much thinking. – Marty Rubin
  37. Most Religions are Social Clubs with expensive Entertainment Cheap Wine and Stale Crackers – Stanley Victor Paskavich
  38. Worship offered with stale flower and an unclean mind is of no value – Radhe Maa
  39. I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  40. Death makes life precious. Without it nothing would mean anything. Imagine a society without death – Jarred Cole

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