"...I am an anomaly in the system, living……" — Muriel Barbery
"...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self."
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92 Quotes by Muriel Barbery
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Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like…
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Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
— Margaret Atwood
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do…
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Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into…
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A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of…
— Franklin Pierce
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Every science is made up entirely of anomalies rearranged to fit.
— R. A. Lafferty
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We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in…
— Midge Decter
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From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in…
— Thandie Newton
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We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days…
— Emma Thompson
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Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond…
— Branford Marsalis
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We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces…
— Arthur Kleinman
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I'd been sick on tour for about two years with this medical anomaly that doctors couldn't figure out. That's a…
— Lana Del Rey
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When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
— Robert Venturi
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