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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
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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, 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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I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
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A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.
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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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I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.
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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
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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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When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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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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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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I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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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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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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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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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat is going by with her tummy dragging close to the floor. This cat has absolutely nothing constructive to do in life and still she is heading toward something, probably an armchair.
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If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate
Muriel Barbery