The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, … - Muriel Barbery

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I challenge you to be the best you can be! I challenge you to behave in ways you've never behaved.

Muriel Barbery

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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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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