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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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I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
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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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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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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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I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really their own self that they're mad at.
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The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure.
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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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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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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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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
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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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That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
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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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I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and vitamin C, however much they nurture us, cannot save lives, or sustain our souls.
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