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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
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Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
Muriel Barbery
We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
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The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.
Muriel Barbery
It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and vitamin C, however much they nurture us, cannot save lives, or sustain our souls.
Muriel Barbery
I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
Muriel Barbery
I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.
Muriel Barbery
Art is emotion without desire.
Muriel Barbery
To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
Muriel Barbery
But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.
Muriel Barbery
. . . 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.
Muriel Barbery
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.
Muriel Barbery
...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.
Muriel Barbery
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.
Muriel Barbery
People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.
Muriel Barbery
The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
Muriel Barbery
We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.
Muriel Barbery
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.
Muriel Barbery
That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
Muriel Barbery
When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
Muriel Barbery
Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
Muriel Barbery