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In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Wonder
Voice
Song
True
Ends
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World
Raised
Movement

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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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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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