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Day Quotes by Muriel Barbery
- ...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…
- We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think…
- 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…
- ...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…
- How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing…
- For the first time in my life I understood the meaning of the word 'never'. And it's really awful. You say the word a hundred…
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- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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