"Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can."
- Yann Martel, "Life of Pi"
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I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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— Yann Martel, "Life of Pi"
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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Life Of Pi (2012), dir. Ang Lee.
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Remember when I said I was going to stop buying books? Oops.
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From Yann Martel’s Life of Pi
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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
Yann Martel, Life of Pi.
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If you took the city … and turned it upside down and shook it, you would be amazed at the animals that would fall out. It would pour more than cats and dogs, I tell you. Boa constrictors, Komodo dragons, crocodiles, piranhas, ostriches, wolves, lynx, wallabies, manatees, porcupines, orangutans, wild boar—that’s the sort of rainfall you could expect on your umbrella.
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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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? This peephole is all I've got!
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