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One Quotes by Muriel Barbery
- Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there…
- Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
- To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.
- In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch of perfection in…
- If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
- Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one…
- What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient…
- This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The…
- I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are…
- 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…
- But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be…
- When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where…
- As a child I often wondered whether I would be allowed to live such moments- to inhabit the slow, majestic ballet of the snowflakes, to…
- 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…
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