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“... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.”

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Muriel Barbery, born on May 28, 1969, is a renowned French novelist. Her works are known for their unique perspective and profound thinking, which have won her a wide audience. more

“This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship.”

Mind Firsts Persons Self Share Solitude Surrender Release Certainty Comparison Peace Of Mind Openness Serenity Pauses Companionship Exquisite Fluency

Author:Muriel Barbery

“Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.”

Love Giving Body Eye Pain Spiritual Love Is Birth Your Body Cures Yield Sufism Scent Sufi Giving Birth

Book:'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian

Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian

“Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!”

Long Speak Hours Heard Minutes Pity Miserable Tombs

Book:Mystery Tales

Source: Mystery Tales

“He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.”

“I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.”

I Can Cricket

Author:Bill Bryson

“Killer skirt, deadly legs.”

Legs Killers Skirts Hush Hush

Book:Hush, Hush Parts 1 & 2: includes Hush, Hush and Crescendo

Source: Hush, Hush Parts 1 & 2: includes Hush, Hush and Crescendo

“I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.”

Thinking May Female Vanity Explanation Boast Uninformed

Author:Jane Austen

“There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.”

Source: Lord Jim

“I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.”

Giving Children Enough Realizing Giving Up Smart Burden Crush Don't Give Up

Book:Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest

Source: Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest

“True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance. People describe intercession by saying, "It is putting yourself in someone else’s place." That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God’s place; it is having His mind and His perspective.”

People Mind Persons Seems Attitude Changed Perspective Circumstances Intercession

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

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