"As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble."

--

Muriel Barbery

#Wall Quotes #Believe Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit”
“Not since before Roe v. Wade has a law or court decision had the potential to devastate access to reproductive health care on such a sweeping scale.”
“I was struck by the fact that I hadn't been awed in a while. Did that mean awesome things had disappeared from my life? No. What it did mean was that I'd gotten too caught up in distractions and mind mucking to recognize anything as awe-inspiring. . . . I hadn't been paying attention to the beauty around me.”
“Enthusiasm moves the world.”

Source : Letter to Mrs Drew, 19 May 1891, in Some Hawarden Letters (1917) ch. 7
“Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.”
“The suckling relationship is one of the sources of real sweetness that we have in human existence...The suckling baby can teach adults about the expression of sweet love and gratitude in a way no words can.”
“There has been a whole lot. Just to combine a musical career with the last year on high school was enough as it is. I didn't think it should fare as well as it did, but apparently it did.”
“I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.”

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