Frasi di Yann Martel (112 frasi, pagina 4)

Variante: I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
Origine: Life of Pi

“There were many seas. The sea roared like a tiger. The sea whispered in your ear like a friend telling you secrets. The sea clinked like small change in a pocket. The sea thundered like avalanches. The sea hissed like sandpaper working on wood. The sea sounded like someone vomiting. The sea was dead silent.”

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Yann Martel libro Vita di Pi

Origine: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 78, p. 239

“An apple resists being eaten. An apple is not eaten, it is conquered. The crunchiness of a pear is far more appealing. It is giving and fragile. To eat a pear is akin to … kissing.”

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Origine: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 50

“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.”

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Origine: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 25, p. 78

“If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?”

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Origine: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 99, p. 330

“My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book.”

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

“Here was irrefutable proof that he was using the Holocaust to speak of the extermination of animal life. Doomed creatures that could not speak for themselves were being given the voice of a most articulate people who had been similarly doomed. He was seeing the tragic fate of animals through the tragic fate of Jews. The Holocaust as allegory.”

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Origine: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 173

“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 is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.”

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Origine: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 4, p. 17

“"Bapu Gandhi said, 'All religions are true.' I just want to love God," I blurted out, and looked down, red in the face.”

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Origine: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 23, p. 76

“[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (…) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.”

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Origine: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 97

“It was Richard Parker who calmed me down. It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.”

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Origine: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 57, p. 179

“Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field.”

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Origine: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 114

“Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life.”

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Origine: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 94, p. 316

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