Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a q… - Yann Martel

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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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Yann Martel (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian author most famous for his Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi.

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Some of us give up[…] with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others — and I am one of those — never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success.

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

I knelt a mortal; I rose an immortal.

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