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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.

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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I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.
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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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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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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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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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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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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
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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 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 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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That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
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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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But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.
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