When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by …

Yann Martel
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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. ✨ Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. ✨ Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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