“It is always reassuring to be disabused of one's own paranoia.” — Muriel Barbery Paranoia Copy Share Image
Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“I am a complete slave to vocabulary, I ought to have named my cat Roget.” — Muriel Barbery Cats Copy Share Image
To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering. — Muriel Barbery Christian Copy Share Image
“What do these onlookers see as they bend over my broken body? I do not know. But inside me, the sun.” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“God appeases our animal fears and the unbearable prospect that someday all our pleasures will cease.” — Muriel Barbery Animals Copy Share Image
It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
What makes the strength of a soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“There was only one thing I wanted: to be left alone, without too many demand upon my person, so that for a… — Muriel Barbery Hunger Copy Share Image
When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts,… — Muriel Barbery Body Copy Share Image
They didn't recognize me," I repeat. He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm. "It is because they have never… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Don't worry Renee, I won't commit suicide and I won't burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching… — Muriel Barbery Beauty Copy Share Image
“...Uncertain of my strange words, as always I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause… — 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 Contemplation 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
“To write a profound thought, I have to put myself onto a very special stratum, otherwise the ideas and words just don't… — Muriel Barbery Profound Copy Share Image
Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it… — Muriel Barbery Alchemy Copy Share Image
As a child I often wondered whether I would be allowed to live such moments- to inhabit the slow, majestic ballet of… — Muriel Barbery Ballet 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 Human life Copy Share Image
“How ironic! After decades of grub, deluges of wine and alcohol of every sort, after a life spent in butter, cream, rich… — Muriel Barbery Ironic Copy Share Image
This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with… — Muriel Barbery Certainty 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
“To rich people it must seem that the ordinary little people..experience human emotions with less intensity and greater indifference...The fact that we… — Muriel Barbery Human emotions 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 Nature Copy Share Image
“I wonder if I am not turning into a contemplative . . . But those roses . They were something else. I… — Muriel Barbery Beauty Copy Share Image
“The first time he consulted me, I caught a glimpse of my salvation. He made a gift to me of the very… — 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 Family Copy Share Image
“A flavor...what do you think, old madman, what do you think? That if you find a lost flavor you will eradicate decades… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“First of all, I think that sex, like love, is a sacred thing..if I were going to live beyond puberty, it would… — Muriel Barbery Adulthood Copy Share Image
“What is the purpose of intelligence if it is not to serve others?” — Muriel Barbery Intelligence Copy Share Image
“It really takes an effort to appear stupider than you are.” — Muriel Barbery Effort Copy Share Image
The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again. — Muriel Barbery Humans Copy Share Image
I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess - — 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 Elegance Copy Share Image
When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. — Muriel Barbery Ability Copy Share Image
“If you change the way you crunch into something, it is like trying something new.” — Muriel Barbery Change Copy Share Image
“Tutti pensano che i bambini non sanno niente. Viene da chiedersi se i grandi sono stati mai bambini.” — Muriel Barbery Amor 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 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)
