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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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Screenwriter
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Anfa
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Dying
Alive
Maybe

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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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...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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But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.
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With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.
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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
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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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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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...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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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
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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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I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
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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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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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The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.
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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.
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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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