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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.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
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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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Art is emotion without desire.
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...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity. That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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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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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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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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If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
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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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...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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