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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
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Ever
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Children
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Wonder
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But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.
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...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.
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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.
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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.
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I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.
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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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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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