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Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
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