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Muriel Barbery Inspirational Quotes (49)

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We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.
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..if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it's a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today, don't you see?
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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
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I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.
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If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate
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Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when the orgy of their sugary sweetness is not destined to full some primary need but to coat our palate with all the benevolence of the world.
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We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware of the fact that we are only ever looking at ourselves in the other person, that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy.
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The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.
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It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and vitamin C, however much they nurture us, cannot save lives, or sustain our souls.
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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat is going by with her tummy dragging close to the floor. This cat has absolutely nothing constructive to do in life and still she is heading toward something, probably an armchair.
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They didn't recognize me, I repeat. He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm. It is because they have never seen you, he says. I would recognize you anywhere.
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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
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Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.
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I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really their own self that they're mad at.
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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
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When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
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But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.
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People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become...will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'?
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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.
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