Thinking back on it, this evening, with my heart and my stomach all like jelly, I have finally concluded, maybe that’s what life is about: there’s a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty, where time is no longer the same. It’s as if those strains of music created a sort of interlude in time, something suspended, an elsewhere that had come to us, an always within never. Yes, that’s it, an always within never. Don’t worry Renée, I won’t commit suicide and I won’t burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I’ll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world. Muriel Barbery
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In a world full of despair, beauty can be found in simple things. In Renée Garançon, the French actress who inspired this quote, there was a lot of beauty. In her words, she captured that beauty by describing the strange moment of time that was suspended as the strains of music played. The fact that she was going through so much pain made it all the more beautiful. If she could find beauty in the pain, how much more chance should we have to find beauty in our own lives?

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