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Yann Martel

Life of Pi

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  • katieee720цитирует9 лет назад
    “If there’s only one nation in the sky, shouldn’t all passports be valid for it?”
  • Louveteauцитирует10 лет назад
    How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
  • Louveteauцитирует10 лет назад
    To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
  • Louveteauцитирует10 лет назад
    Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.
  • mishiareeze077цитируетв прошлом месяце
    But worry he did. Any business is risky business, and none more so than small b business, the one that risks the shirt on its back. A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and science. And by this token, not much of a money-making venture, for the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims, much to Father's chagrin
  • mishiareeze077цитируетв прошлом месяце
    "The word of God? To that illiterate merchant of yours in the middle of the desert? Those were drooling epileptic fits brought on by the swaying of his camel, not divine revelation. That, or the sun frying his brains
  • mishiareeze077цитируетв прошлом месяце
    Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
  • mishiareeze077цитируетв прошлом месяце
    Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
  • Jᜀᜈ᜔ᜈцитирует3 месяца назад
    My majors were religious studies and zoology

    DID I HEAR ZOOLOGY

  • veryveryverystrangeцитирует3 года назад
    Теперь несколько слов о страхе. Он – единственно настоящий враг жизни. Только страх может победить жизнь. Он – хитроумный, коварный противник, уж я-то знаю. Ему неведомы приличия, законы и традиции, он беспощаден. Страх выискивает у вас самое слабое место – и находит его точно и легко.
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