Yann Martel słynne cytaty
Yann Martel: Cytaty po angielsku
Wariant: 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.
Źródło: Life of Pi
“As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.”
Źródło: Life of Pi
“My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.”
Źródło: Life of Pi
“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.”
Źródło: 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.”
Wariant: 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.
Źródło: Life of Pi
“First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.”
Źródło: Life of Pi
“I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.”
Źródło: Life of Pi
“A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.”
Źródło: Beatrice and Virgil
“.. the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.”
Wariant: We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
Źródło: Life of Pi
“If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!”
Źródło: Life of Pi
“Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.”
Źródło: Beatrice and Virgil
Wariant: 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.
Źródło: Life of Pi
“A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.”
Źródło: Life of Pi
Wariant: To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Źródło: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 7, p. 31
“science can only take you so far and then you have to leap”
Źródło: Life of Pi
“To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.”
Wariant: To me religion is about our dignity not our depravity