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Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
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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.
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To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
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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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...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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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
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Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.
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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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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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I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
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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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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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Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.
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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.
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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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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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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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If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate
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