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“What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.”
― Muriel Barbery

“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London