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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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I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.
Muriel Barbery
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.
Muriel Barbery
With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.
Muriel Barbery
Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
Muriel Barbery
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
We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
Muriel Barbery
I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.
Muriel Barbery
We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others we just meet ourselves.
Muriel Barbery
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.
Muriel Barbery
. . . 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.
Muriel Barbery
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.
Muriel Barbery
...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.
Muriel Barbery
Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.
Muriel Barbery
People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.
Muriel Barbery
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.
Muriel Barbery
If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
Muriel Barbery
I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
Muriel Barbery
I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
Muriel Barbery
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
Muriel Barbery