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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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In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
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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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They didn't recognize me, I repeat. He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm. It is because they have never seen you, he says. I would recognize you anywhere.
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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 won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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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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The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.
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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
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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, 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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Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.
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