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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Anfa
Entrusting
Opening
Soul
Life

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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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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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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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Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time...When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
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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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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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In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
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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 may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
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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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...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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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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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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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
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Art is emotion without desire.
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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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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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I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
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