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With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.
— Muriel Barbery
We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude,
— Muriel Barbery
If there is one thing I detest, it's when people transform their powerlessness or alienation into a creed.
— Muriel Barbery
Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
— Muriel Barbery
I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
— Muriel Barbery
The French are often, when it comes to wine, so formal that they border on the ridiculous.
— Muriel Barbery
I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world. - Paloma
— Muriel Barbery
I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.
— Muriel Barbery
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
— Muriel Barbery
True faith, it is a well-known fact, has little regard for chapels, but does believe in the communion of mysteries.
— Muriel Barbery
If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
— Muriel Barbery
In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
— Muriel Barbery
It is always reassuring to be disabused of one's own paranoia.
— Muriel Barbery
They have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
— Muriel Barbery
What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.
— Muriel Barbery
When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.
— Muriel Barbery
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
— Muriel Barbery
Day after day, we pace up and down our life the way we pace up and down a passageway.
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A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.
— Muriel Barbery
Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.
— Muriel Barbery
There are only two moments when everything is possible in this life," said Petrus, "when one drinks, and when one makes up stories.
— Muriel Barbery
I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.
— Muriel Barbery
That is the way a summer rain can take hold in you- like a new heart, beating in time with another's.
— Muriel Barbery
To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life ... to beauty all is forgiven.
— Muriel Barbery
The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
— Muriel Barbery
Art is life playing to other rhythms.""The Elegance of the Hedgehog — Muriel Barbery
Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies.
— Muriel Barbery
That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. - The Elegance of the Hedgehog
— Muriel Barbery
Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and breath,
— Muriel Barbery
Every day I tell myself that my sister cannot possibly sink any further into the slough of disgrace and, every day, I am amazed to see that she does.
— Muriel Barbery
Behold the man I also know how to be.
— Muriel Barbery
God appeases our animal fears and the unbearable prospect that someday all our pleasures will cease.
— Muriel Barbery
What do these onlookers see as they bend over my broken body? I do not know. But inside me, the sun.
— Muriel Barbery
One must concede to others what one tolerates in oneself.
— Muriel Barbery
When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts, a web where hope is trapped.
— Muriel Barbery
...love musn't be a means, it must be an end.
— Muriel Barbery
I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.
— Muriel Barbery
But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses
— Muriel Barbery
Eternity: for all its invisibility, we gaze at it.
— Muriel Barbery
Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure.
— Muriel Barbery
To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things ...
— Muriel Barbery
How distressing to stumble on a dominant social habitus, just when one was convinced of one's own uniqueness in the matter!
— Muriel Barbery
Boredom was born on a day of uniformity.
— Muriel Barbery
I am an intellectual (who makes fun of other intellectuals).
— Muriel Barbery
Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.
— Muriel Barbery
I am going to die, but that is of no importance.
— Muriel Barbery
Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
— Muriel Barbery
When we disappear, it is the others who die for us
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since destiny always rings three times...
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I had a brief glimpse of a frail, mature man carrying a ravaged child in his arms...
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What is the purpose of intelligence if it is not to serve others?
— Muriel Barbery
Art is emotion without desire.
— Muriel Barbery
In any event, it's done, said Papa-which are the words of a coward to the power of ten.
— Muriel Barbery
Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodernthinker. — Muriel Barbery
I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
— Muriel Barbery
We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
— Muriel Barbery
Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.
— Muriel Barbery
Shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.
— Muriel Barbery
Birch treesTeach me that I am nothing
And that I am deserving of life — Muriel Barbery
I don't give a damn about where I happen to be, provided nothing stops me from going into my mind.
— Muriel Barbery
I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.
— Muriel Barbery
I understood that I was suffering because I couldn't make anyone else around me feel better.
— Muriel Barbery
I suddenly felt my spirit expand, for I was capable of grasping the utter beauty of the trees.
— Muriel Barbery
The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.
— Muriel Barbery
Tea and mangas instead of coffee and newspapers: something elegant and enchanting, instead of adult power struggles and their sad aggressiveness.
— Muriel Barbery
Object lesson: in the world, everything is compensation. When you can't go fast, you push harder
— Muriel Barbery
When you don't know how to build the present, you tell
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I don't think it has ever occurred to her that a text is written above all to be read and to arouse emotions in the reader.
— Muriel Barbery
We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.
— Muriel Barbery
To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.
— Muriel Barbery
What do you drinkWhat do you read
At breakfast
And I know who
You are — Muriel Barbery
Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.
— Muriel Barbery
As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.
— Muriel Barbery
It really takes an effort to appear stupider than you are.
— Muriel Barbery
People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.
— Muriel Barbery
Grammar A stratum of consciousness Leading to beauty
— Muriel Barbery
If you can pretend to ignore the fact that you've got a right hand, what else can you pretend to ignore? Can you have a negative heart, a hollow soul?
— Muriel Barbery
And I wonder how well I myself can see.
— Muriel Barbery
Papa is just a kid who's playing the dead serious grown-up.
— Muriel Barbery
Because art is life, playing to other rhythms.
— Muriel Barbery
Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
— Muriel Barbery