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Living Quotes by Muriel Barbery
- That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. - The Elegance of the Hedgehog
- As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to…
- ...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…
- ..when I say that "he's a truly nasty man," I mean he has so thoroughly renounced everything good that he might have inside him that…
- ...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…
- So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late…
More Living Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov