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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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Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because…
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We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to…
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The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in…
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I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me.
— Ibn Ata Allah
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Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still…
— Colson Whitehead
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Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the…
— Hugh Mackay
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When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will…
— Muriel Barbery
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Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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In the name of God, the merciful, and the compassionate! Say: I seek refuge with the Lord and Cherisher of Mankind,The King…
— Quran
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