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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
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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.
Muriel Barbery
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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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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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. . . 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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...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.
Muriel Barbery
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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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In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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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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But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.
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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
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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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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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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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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
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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.
Muriel Barbery
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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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To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.
Muriel Barbery
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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
Muriel Barbery