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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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When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small 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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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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. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same . . . [like] something suspended . . . an elsewhere . . . an always within a never. Yes, that's is, an always within a never.
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Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.
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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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..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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A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.
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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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If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.
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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
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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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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 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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To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.
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