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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love… — Yann Martel

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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at it while it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.

Yann Martel
Life of Pi (novel) · 2001
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Life and deathLifeDeath
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2001
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Yann Martel
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Martel, Yann. Life of Pi. Knopf Canada, 2001, ch. 1.

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