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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.
Muriel Barbery
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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
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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 real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.
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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.
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But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.
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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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...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity. That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
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