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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
People
Punishing
Heal
Better

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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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Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
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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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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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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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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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That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
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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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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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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.
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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
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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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If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate
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Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.
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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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I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
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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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