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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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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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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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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate
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With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.
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Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time...When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
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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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People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.
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Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.
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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
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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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When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts, a web where hope is trapped.
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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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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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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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..if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it's a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today, don't you see?
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Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.
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We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.
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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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