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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Anfa
Live
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Consequences
Well
Consequence
Matter
Matters
Mere
Built
Building
Dies

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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.
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