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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Life
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If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
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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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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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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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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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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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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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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
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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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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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...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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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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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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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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The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.
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Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.
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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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But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.
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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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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.
Muriel Barbery