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A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
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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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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat is going by with her tummy dragging close to the floor. This cat has absolutely nothing constructive to do in life and still she is heading toward something, probably an armchair.
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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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In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
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Art is emotion without desire.
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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
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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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That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
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We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware of the fact that we are only ever looking at ourselves in the other person, that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy.
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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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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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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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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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If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become...will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'?
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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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