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If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Anfa
Fate
Happy
Others
Reversal
Weep
Heal
Smile

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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 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 may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
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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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In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
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Don't worry Renee, I won't commit suicide and I won't burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world.
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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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. . . 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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The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.
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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
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People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.
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