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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.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Anfa
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Grownups
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Wonder
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Anything
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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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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
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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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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
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Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.
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Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.
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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.
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Art is emotion without desire.
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What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient to the pleasure of showing one's brilliance.
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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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