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I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Anfa
Drowning
Belong
Calm
Population
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World
Apprehension

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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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The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.
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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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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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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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When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
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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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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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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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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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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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I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
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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 have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity. That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
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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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