“-and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“We live each day as if it were merely a rehearsal for the next, and the cosy existence at 7, rue de… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“No one seems to have thought of the fact that life is absurd, being a brilliant success has no greater value than… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“This is eminently true of many happy moments in life. Freed from the demands of decision and intention, adrift on some inner… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life I understood the meaning of the word 'never'. And it's really awful. You say the… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nations disintegrate, while others are born,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“The time of man is coming, and of this I am certain: neither death, nor life, nor the spirits, nor the present,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Just by observing the adults around me I understood very early on that life goes by in no time at all, yet… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Here are all these people, full of heartache or hatred or desire, and we all have our troubles and the school year… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“No one is a greater schoolgirl in spirit than a cynic. Cynics cannot relinquish the rubbish they were taught as children: they… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Any game where the goal is to build territory has to be beautiful. There may be phases of combat, but they are… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“The gifts of fate come with a price. For those who have been favored by life’s indulgence, rigorous respect in matters of… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“There are times, however, when life becomes a phantom comedy. As if aroused from a dream, we watch ourselves in action and,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“All our family acquaintances have followed the same path: their youth spent trying to make the most of their intelligence, squeezing their… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Apparently, now and again adults take the time to sit down and contemplate what a disaster their life is. They complain without… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“The problem is that children believe what adults say and once they're adults themselves they exact their revenge by deceiving their own… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“So much for the movement of the world! It could have been perfection and it was a disaster. It should be experienced… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“I take the measure of the ridiculous, superfluous cats who wander through our lives with all the placidity and indifference of an… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, teach the teachers; and those who can't teach the teachers go into… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share
What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are I've assigned myself a new… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share
“A terroir only exists by virtue of one's childhood mythology . . . we have invented these words of tradition rooted deep in the… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share
“The tea ritual: such a precise repetition of the same gestures and the same tastes; accession to simple,authentic and refined sensations, a license given… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share
As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share
“I wonder if I am not turning into a contemplative . . . But those roses . They were something else. I was having… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share
We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share
“To rich people it must seem that the ordinary little people..experience human emotions with less intensity and greater indifference...The fact that we might be… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share
I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share
“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you’ve said… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share
![“. . . 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.” quote by Muriel Barbery](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/91e/muriel-barbery-1092_beauty_maybe-that-s-what-life-s-all-about-there_1298084.jpg)
