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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
Art
Else
Human
Humans
Much
Nurture
Love
Exception
Life
Friendship
Beauty

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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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Art is emotion without desire.
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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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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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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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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
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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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But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.
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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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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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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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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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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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...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.
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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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In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
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A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.
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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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I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
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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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