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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?
Muriel Barbery
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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
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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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We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware of the fact that we are only ever looking at ourselves in the other person, that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy.
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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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. . . 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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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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Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat is going by with her tummy dragging close to the floor. This cat has absolutely nothing constructive to do in life and still she is heading toward something, probably an armchair.
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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.
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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
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A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.
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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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I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
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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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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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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.
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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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If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate
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