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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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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've…
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I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is…
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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way…
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Nice? It's the ONLY thing, said the Water Rat solemnly, as he leant forward for his stroke. Believe me, my young friend,…
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'Tell me one last thing,' said Harry. 'Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?' Dumbledore beamed at him,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Little cute thing said, what's yo' name? I put my necklace in her face and told her read the chain.
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Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come…
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More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle
— C.S. Lewis
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I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that…
— Anne Rice
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For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing…
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She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front…
— David Nicholls
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