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Life of Pi

“Purtroppo, c'è sempre chi è pronto ad assumersi la responsabilità di difenderlo [Dio], come se la Realtà Ultima e la struttura dell'esistenza necessitassero dell'aiuto umano.
Queste persone, quando incontrano una vedova devastata dalla lebbra che elemosina qualche spicciolo, o dei bambini coperti di stracci, pensano: "Le solite sceneggiate". Ma se percepiscono la più piccola offesa nei confronti di Dio, si trasformano completamente: i volti si infiammano, i petti si gonfiano e volano parole rabbiose. La forza della loro indignazione è incredibile.
Queste persone non capiscono che Dio va difeso dentro e non fuori di noi.”

Yann Martel libro Vita di Pi

Origine: Vita di Pi, p. 85

“A metà degli anni Settanta, l'India attraversava un brutto periodo. Lo capivo dalle rughe profonde che solcavano la fronte di papà quando leggeva i giornali, dai frammenti di conversazione fra i miei genitori, Mamaji e gli altri. Ero in grado di comprendere quello che dicevano, però non mi interessava. Gli oranghi erano ghiotti di chapati come sempre, alle scimmie non importava cosa succedeva a Delhi; i rinoceronti e le capre continuavano a vivere in pace, gli uccelli cinguettavano, le nuvole portavano pioggia; il sole era caldo, la terra respirava, Dio c'era: nel mio mondo tutto era in ordine.”

Yann Martel libro Vita di Pi

Origine: Vita di Pi, p. 92

“L'ottimismo durevole può essere il prodotto di una cosa sola: ragione. Ogni ottimismo irragionevole tende a essere sconfitto dalla realtà e persino a sfociare in un'infelicità maggiore. L'ottimismo deve dunque essere fondato nella ragione, in essa incrollabilmente radicato, così che il pessimismo diventi un atteggiamento sciocco, miope. Essendo la ragionevolezza quella cosa ingloriosa e tiepida che è, ciò significa che che l'ottimismo può sorgere soltanto da piccoli, quasi ridicoli, e tuttavia innegabili traguardi.”

Yann Martel libro The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

Yann Martel: Frasi in inglese

“You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?”

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Yann Martel libro Vita di Pi

Origine: Life of Pi

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

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Origine: Life of Pi

“Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover.”

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Yann Martel libro Vita di Pi

Origine: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 99, p. 330
Contesto: Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

“Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?”

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Yann Martel libro Vita di Pi

Origine: Life of Pi

“My greatest wish -- other than salvation -- was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“I love Canada… It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.”

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Yann Martel libro Vita di Pi

Origine: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 1, p. 5

“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.”

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“I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.”

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Yann Martel libro Vita di Pi

Origine: Life of Pi

“Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon?… The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“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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Origine: Life of Pi

“I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.”

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“Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“My suffering left me sad and gloomy.”

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Origine: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 1, p. 3

“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God… These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know.”

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Origine: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 99, p. 336
Contesto: I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.

“We believe what we see.’… What do you do when you’re in the dark?”

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“Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.”

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Yann Martel libro Beatrice and Virgil

Origine: Beatrice and Virgil

“My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.”

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Yann Martel libro Vita di Pi

Origine: Life of Pi

“The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.”

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“The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.”

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Yann Martel libro Vita di Pi

Origine: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 74, p. 232
Contesto: Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed. A school of fish appeared around the net or a knot cried out to be reknotted. Or I thought of my family, of how they were spared this terrible agony. The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

“When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.”

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Yann Martel libro Vita di Pi

Origine: Life of Pi

“… for everything has a trace of the divine in it.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.”

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Origine: Life of Pi