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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
Writer
Anfa
Real
Love
Ordeal
Ordeals
Leaving
Learning
Live
Without

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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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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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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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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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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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If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
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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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But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.
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...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.
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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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That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
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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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What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient to the pleasure of showing one's brilliance.
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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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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
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