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Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
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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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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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A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.
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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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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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I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
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Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
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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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Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat is going by with her tummy dragging close to the floor. This cat has absolutely nothing constructive to do in life and still she is heading toward something, probably an armchair.
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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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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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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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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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I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.
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The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure.
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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
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With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human 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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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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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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