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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Anfa
Supersonic
Overwhelms
Melancholy
Speed

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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
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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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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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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 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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. . . 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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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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...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.
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If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
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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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That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
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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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A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.
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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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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.
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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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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
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