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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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Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books…
— Russell Banks
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What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
— Liz Carpenter
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If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says…
— L. Neil Smith
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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you…
— Clifton Fadiman
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I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be…
— Helen Dunmore
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By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected…
— Roald Dahl
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I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood…
— Anne McCaffrey
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Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it…
— Tony Benn
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I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure…
— Stan Lee
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