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The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
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...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity. That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
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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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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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... they have never seen you ... 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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Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
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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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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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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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