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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.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
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Beauty
Within
Moments
Renee
Thing
Searching
Always
Burn
Never
Suicide
World
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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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