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My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

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Muriel Barbery

. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same. . . [like] something suspended. . . an elsewhere. . . an always within a never. Yes, that's is, an always within a never.

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People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

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There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

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We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

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Because beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.

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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

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