Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern
thinker.

Muriel Barbery

Mots clés humour postmodernism

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We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude,

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What is the purpose of intelligence if it is not to serve others?

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As for me, I implore fate to give me the chance to see beyond myself and truly meet someone.

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Whether I say to him: “War and Peace is the staging of a determinist vision of history” or “You’d do well to oil the hinges in the garbage room,” he will not find that one is any more significant than the other.

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How distressing to stumble on a dominant social habitus, just when one was convinced of one’s own uniqueness in the matter!

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...because I think that each time it's a new construction, as if everything has been reduced to ashes during the night, and he has to start from scratch. In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.

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When we move, we are in a way de-structured by our movement toward something: we are both here and at the same time not here because we're already in the process of going elsewhere, if you see what I mean. To stop de-structuring yourself, you have to stop moving altogether. Either you move and you're no longer whole, or you're whole and you can't move.

Muriel Barbery

Mots clés philosophy self-awareness

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E molte persone hanno una specie di bug: credono che l'intelligenza sia un fine. Hanno un'unica idea in testa: essere intelligenti, e questa è una cosa stupissima. E quando l'intelligenza crede di essere uno scopo, funziona in modo strano: non dimostra la sua esistenza con l'ingegno e la semplicità dei suoi frutti, bensì con l'oscurità della sua espressione".

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...love musn't be a means, it must be an end.

Muriel Barbery

Mots clés love

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