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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
Life
Entrusting
Opening
Soul

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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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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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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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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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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 beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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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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In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
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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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..if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it's a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today, don't you see?
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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same . . . [like] something suspended . . . an elsewhere . . . an always within a never. Yes, that's is, an always within a never.
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Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.
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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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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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