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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.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Anfa
Beauty
Dark
Poor
Condemns
Society
Disillusioned
Life
Moreover
Forgiven
Ugly
Intelligent

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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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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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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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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
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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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Art is emotion without desire.
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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's 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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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
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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 may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
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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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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really their own self that they're mad at.
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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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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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Don't worry Renee, I won't commit suicide and I won't burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world.
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A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.
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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 you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
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