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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
Art
Without
Emotion
Desire

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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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The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.
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Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time...When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
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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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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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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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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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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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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
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If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
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If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate
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People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.
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They didn't recognize me, I repeat. He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm. It is because they have never seen you, he says. I would recognize you anywhere.
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When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts, a web where hope is trapped.
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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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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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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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But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.
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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.
Muriel Barbery