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To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of

To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can’t. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn’t want to be in the sun?

Yann Martel
Creating, Long, Darkness
Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.103, Canongate Books

Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.

Yann Martel
Believe, Darkness, Don't Believe
Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.29, Vintage Canada

Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.

Yann Martel
Rain, Darkness, Dawn
Yann Martel (2015). “Life of Pi - CANCELED”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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