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

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Anfa
Forgiven
Intelligence
Longer
Beauty
Seems
Even
Vulgarity
Things
Compensation
Adequate

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