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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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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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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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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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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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A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.
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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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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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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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