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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
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Anfa
Melancholy
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Supersonic
Overwhelms

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People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.
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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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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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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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When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts, a web where hope is trapped.
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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
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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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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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Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
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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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Art is emotion without desire.
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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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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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Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.
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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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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.
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We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware of the fact that we are only ever looking at ourselves in the other person, that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy.
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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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