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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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And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord,…
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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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These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to…
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Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only…
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Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what…
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The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it…
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When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was…
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