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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
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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?
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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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