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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Anfa
Punishing
Heal
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People

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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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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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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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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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With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.
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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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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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When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
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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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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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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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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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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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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
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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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The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.
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