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There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

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

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  1. We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more–there is no greater relationship. – Yann Martel
  2. The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals. – Yann Martel
  3. We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting. – Julie Otsuka
  4. 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
  5. Truth is a T-Rex. Let it out and you won’t need to defend it. It’ll defend itself. – Abhijit Naskar
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. – Yann Martel
  11. When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. – Yann Martel
  12. 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
  13. When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. – Yann Martel
  14. I knew very little about the religion. [Christianity] It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools. – Yann Martel
  15. Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. – Yann Martel
  16. To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken. – Yann Martel
  17. Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn’t stay dry. – Yann Martel
  18. My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described. – Yann Martel
  19. The holy word is story, and story is the holy word. – Yann Martel
  20. 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
  21. The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists. – Yann Martel
  22. Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. – Yann Martel
  23. As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound. – Yann Martel
  24. 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
  25. All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. – Yann Martel
  26. All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. – Yann Martel
  27. Sometimes animals are more human than men and men more animals than animals – Vlgame
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  29. You can find three species at any defind area…. Stray animals, pet animals and SOCIAL animals… I wonder where HUMANS are..!!! – Mayank Sharma
  30. Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do. – Betty White
  31. You can’t pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it. – Scott Howard Phillips
  32. Animal fight to defend their bodies. Humans curse to defend their imagination of themselves. – Devdutt Pattanaik
  33. Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy. – Coco J Ginger
  34. The man who will not defend the honour of his cat cannot be trusted to defend anything. – Robert Lynd
  35. It wasn’t that I stopped caring about life, but that I’ve stopped being able to care. – Ruby Elliot
  36. I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. And I never stopped thinking about you. Even if summers do come to an end. – Nicholas Sparks
  37. You can choose when and when not to be stopped… Choose to be stopped after you die… when your work is done and done well. – Israelmore Ayivor
  38. When I stopped loving, I lost purpose; When I stopped loving myself, I lost myself. – Pavitraa Parthasarathy
  39. When I stopped loving, I lost purpose; When I stopped loving myself, I lost myself. – Pavitraa Parthasarathy
  40. We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very constraints that they hadimposed upon us. – Manal AlSharif

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