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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.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Anfa
Mouths
Tomatoes
Adventure
Horns
Garden
Picked
Pleasure
Rush
Radiating
Simple
Sensations
Freshly
Every
Abundance
Tomato
Mouth
Devoured
Brings
Horn

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