“If there is one thing I detest, it's when people transform their powerlessness or alienation into a creed.” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses — Muriel Barbery Princess Copy Share Image
“Ecco a cosa serve il presente: a costruire il futuro con veri progetti di vita.” — Muriel Barbery Amor Copy Share Image
The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects. — Muriel Barbery Cat Copy Share Image
“-and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.” — Muriel Barbery Beauty Copy Share Image
I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.” — Muriel Barbery Song Copy Share Image
shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in. — Muriel Barbery Art Copy Share Image
Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of… — Muriel Barbery Animal 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 Nature Copy Share Image
Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment,… — Muriel Barbery Beauty Copy Share Image
“How distressing to stumble on a dominant social habitus, just when one was convinced of one’s own uniqueness in the matter!” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“To tell a group of adolescents who already know how to speak and write that that is the purpose of grammar is… — Muriel Barbery Grammar 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 Life Copy Share Image
“The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects, a concept which I find intellectually interesting, but unfortunately our… — Muriel Barbery Cats Copy Share Image
“In a world full of fossils, the slightest movement of a pebble on the slope of the cliff is nearly enough to… — Muriel Barbery Cliff Copy Share Image
Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea.… — Muriel Barbery Autumn Copy Share Image
..when I say that "he's a truly nasty man," I mean he has so thoroughly renounced everything good that he might have… — Muriel Barbery Alive 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
When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will… — Muriel Barbery Books Copy Share Image
“I don't know if you have any idea what a high school in Paris is like in this day and age in… — Muriel Barbery Drugs Copy Share Image
“They have the same relationship that all progressive middle-class women have with their cleaning ladies, although Maman really thinks she is the… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Neptune can sense that I love him; his multiple desires are perfectly clear to me. What charms me about the whole business… — Muriel Barbery Mistress 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 Life 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 Beauty 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 Choir Copy Share Image
“What I really devoured . . . was the truculence of my hosts' language: the syntax may have been brutally sloppy, but… — 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
“It's all well and good to have profound thoughts on a regular basis, but I think it's not enough. Well, I mean:… — Muriel Barbery Humor Copy Share Image
“If people could climb higher in the social hierarchy in proportion to their incompetence, I guarantee the world would not go round… — Muriel Barbery Incompetence Copy Share Image
“So here is my profound thought for the day: This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts? — Muriel Barbery Business Copy Share Image
