Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“...the vulgarity of an environment as bleakly desolate as the neon lights of the factory where the men go each morning, like… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“What does Art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions, makes them visible, and, in so doing, places a seal… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able… — 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
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
“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
“Personally I think there is only one thing to do: find the task we have been placed on this Earth to do,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Personally I think there is only one thing to do: find the task we have been placed on this earth to do,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Yes, this sudden transmutation in the order of things seems to enhance our pleasure, as if consecrating the unchanging nature of a… — 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
