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I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
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But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.
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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
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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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..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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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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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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I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
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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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A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.
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That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
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. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same . . . [like] something suspended . . . an elsewhere . . . an always within a never. Yes, that's is, an always within a never.
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Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.
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