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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
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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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That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
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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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Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.
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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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Don't worry Renee, I won't commit suicide and I won't burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world.
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If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts, a web where hope is trapped.
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...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.
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I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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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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We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others we just meet ourselves.
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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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What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient to the pleasure of showing one's brilliance.
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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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