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I am not an autobiographical writer. ↗

— Yann Martel

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I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist. ↗

— Yann Martel

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If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure. ↗

— Yann Martel

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In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome. ↗

— Yann Martel

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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it? ↗

— Yann Martel

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A selfish man is a thief. ↗

— Jose Marti

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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. ↗

— Jose Marti

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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. ↗

— Jose Marti

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To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly. ↗

— Jose Marti

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