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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
Writer
Anfa
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Wonder
Voice
Song
True
Ends
Might
World
Raised

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