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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

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“Things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”

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Yann Martel libro Vita di Pi

Variante: Things didn't turn out the way they're supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
Origine: Life of Pi

“As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.”

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Origine: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 56, p. 178

“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.”

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Variante: Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
Origine: Life of Pi

“First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“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.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.”

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Origine: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 73, p. 230

“Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.”

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Yann Martel libro Beatrice and Virgil

Origine: Beatrice and Virgil

“It's amazing how willpower can build walls.”

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“.. the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.”

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Variante: We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
Origine: Life of Pi

“Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.”

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Origine: Beatrice and Virgil

“It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.”

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Origine: Beatrice and Virgil

“It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse." Page 316”

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Variante: It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
Origine: Life of Pi

“A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.”

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Origine: Beatrice and Virgil

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”

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Variante: To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Origine: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 7, p. 31

“science can only take you so far and then you have to leap”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.”

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Origine: Life of Pi

“The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.”

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Origine: Life of Pi