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Muriel Barbery
“If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.”
Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery
“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.”
Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery
“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 intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed.”
Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery
“I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”
Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery
“The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.”
Muriel Barbery, Gourmet Rhapsody

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