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If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.

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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Art is emotion without desire.
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. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same . . . [like] something suspended . . . an elsewhere . . . an always within a never. Yes, that's is, an always within a never.
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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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But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.
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Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.
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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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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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I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
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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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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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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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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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Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat is going by with her tummy dragging close to the floor. This cat has absolutely nothing constructive to do in life and still she is heading toward something, probably an armchair.
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Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.
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In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
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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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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become...will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'?
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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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