Maybe the greatest anger and frustration come not from unemployment or poverty or the lack of a future but from the feeling that you have no culture, because you've been torn between cultures, between incompatible symbols. How can you exist when you don't know where you are?
("The Elegance of the Hedgehog")
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People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.Muriel Barbery
But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses
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The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure.
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So much for the movement of the world! It could have been perfection and it was a disaster. It should be experienced in reality and it is pleasure by proxy, like always.
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It is always reassuring to be disabused of one's own paranoia.
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Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.
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