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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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Screenwriter
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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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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
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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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The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.
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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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When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small 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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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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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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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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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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Art is emotion without desire.
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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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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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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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Don't worry Renee, I won't commit suicide and I won't burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world.
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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
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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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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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