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Muriel Barbery has 92 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless…
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Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it…
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Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you…
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What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a…
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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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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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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
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Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and…
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Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.
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Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.
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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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There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in…
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I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate...…
— Whitley Strieber
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Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.
— Richard Adams
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People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and…
— Anna Deavere Smith
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As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in…
— Jessica Valenti
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Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty…
— Bill Berry
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I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years,…
— Debra Winger
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...there is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.
— Ivan KlÃma
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For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end…
— Albert Camus
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We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't…
— Muriel Barbery
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What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable...…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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