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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
Better
People

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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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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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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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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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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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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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It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and vitamin C, however much they nurture us, cannot save lives, or sustain our souls.
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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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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
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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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Art is emotion without desire.
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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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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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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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