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Art is emotion without desire.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Anfa
Emotion
Desire
Art
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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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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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. . . 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 may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
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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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Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
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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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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.
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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
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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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...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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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.
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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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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.
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If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
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