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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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It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool
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Martin Luther, when he walked in the woods, used to raise his hat to the birds and say, ‘Good morning, theologians—you wake…
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There is no fool like an old fool.
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I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.
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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers…
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if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to…
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I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from…
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I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
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Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons…
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