To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things... — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“People aim for the stars and they end up like goldfish in a bowl.” — Muriel Barbery Astronomy Copy Share Image
If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate — Muriel Barbery Fate Copy Share Image
I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers. — Muriel Barbery Apprehension Copy Share Image
Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker. — Muriel Barbery Conclusion Copy Share Image
Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Whether I say to him: “War and Peace is the staging of a determinist vision of history” or “You’d do well to… — Muriel Barbery Dreams Copy Share Image
We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees,… — 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 Dark Copy Share Image
“Olympe is not one for affected charades, the way some people in the building are, to prove that because she is a… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Because beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment,… — Muriel Barbery Beauty 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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 Adults Copy Share Image
“The pathways of hell are hardly foreign; we shall end up there one day if we tarry too long. From a passageway… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“I am struck with incredible force by this proof that sight is like a hand that tries to seize flowing water. Yes,… — Muriel Barbery Flowing water 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
“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
“Any game where the goal is to build territory has to be beautiful. There may be phases of combat, but they are… — Muriel Barbery Death Copy Share Image
“Desire! It carries us and crucifies us, delivers us every new day to a battlefield where, on the eve, the battle was… — Muriel Barbery Desire 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 Destiny Copy Share Image
“My name is Renee. I am 54 years old. For 27 years I have been the concierge at number 7, rue de… — Muriel Barbery Live alone 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
I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world." - Paloma — Muriel Barbery Beauty Copy Share Image
“We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude,” — Muriel Barbery Friendship Copy Share Image
Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul. — Muriel Barbery Entrusting Copy Share Image
