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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.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Anfa
Else
Human
Humans
Much
Nurture
Love
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Life
Friendship
Beauty
Art

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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.
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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.
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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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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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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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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
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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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If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate
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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
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A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.
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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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...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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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
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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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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.
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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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In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
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