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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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People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.
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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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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure.
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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
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With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.
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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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Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.
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I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.
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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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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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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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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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