I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to liv…

Yann Martel
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I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island. ✨ Yann Martel (2012). Life Of Pi, Illustrated, p.401, Canongate Books
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