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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
Desire
Art
Without
Emotion

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Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.
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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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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
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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 belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.
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A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.
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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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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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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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. . . 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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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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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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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient to the pleasure of showing one's brilliance.
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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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That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
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But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.
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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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