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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.
– Yann Martel

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  1. All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. – Yann Martel
  2. I’ve learned through experience that faith moves mountains, hope moves choices, and, more importantly, that love moves you a step closer to God. – Maribel C Pagan
  3. 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
  4. I knew very little about the religion. [Christianity] It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools. – Yann Martel
  5. Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. – Yann Martel
  6. To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken. – 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. We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more–there is no greater relationship. – Yann Martel
  12. When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. – Yann Martel
  13. Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn’t stay dry. – Yann Martel
  14. My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described. – Yann Martel
  15. 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
  16. The holy word is story, and story is the holy word. – Yann Martel
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists. – Yann Martel
  21. Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. – Yann Martel
  22. As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound. – Yann Martel
  23. The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals. – 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. When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. – Yann Martel
  26. You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets. – Amit Kalantri
  27. ..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. – Julian Barnes
  28. Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? – The Joker – Grant Morrison
  29. There is a madness that is joy, and there is a madness that is just madness. – Marty Rubin
  30. We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils. – Arthur Machen
  31. There is good weird and good strange and bad weird and bad strange. Your Daddy is good weird and good strange. – Roger Hamlet
  32. She loved our dad in the inexplicable way that young women sometimes idolize men who greet their affection with casual indifference. – Daiva Markelis
  33. Sometimes fantasy provides the only reasonable explanation for life’s inexplicable moments. – JS Bierman
  34. A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways. – Israelmore Ayivor
  35. Prayer bends the omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  36. Darkness moves like a pack of wild dogs.The wind moves like a wounded animal.The ground must be full of teeth by now. – Cecilia Llompart
  37. When grace moves in… guilt moves out – Max Lucado
  38. I only write when the spirit moves me … and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi – William Faulkner
  39. It is madness. But sometimes, madness is the only path forward. – Anne Fortier
  40. People’s lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and… well, sometimes they can’t talk about them. – Alan Moore

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