Muriel Barbery Quotes

Like Any Form Of Art, Literature's Mission Is To Make The Fulfillment Of Our Essential Duties More Bearable. For A Creature Like Man, Who Must Forge His Destiny By Means Of Thought And Reflexivity, The Knowledge Gained From This Will Perforce Be Unbearably Lucid. We Know That We Are Beasts Who Have This Weapon For Survival, And That We Are Not Gods Creating A World With Our Own Thoughts, And Something Has To Make Our Own Wisdom Bearable, Something Has To Save Us From The Woeful Eternal Fever Of Biological Destiny. Therefore, We Have Invented Art: Our Animal Selves Have Devised Another Way To Ensure The Survival Of Our Species.

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