“As for me, I implore fate to give me the chance to see beyond myself and truly meet someone.” — Muriel Barbery Destiny Copy Share Image
The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“True novelty is that which does not grow old, despite the passage of time.” — Muriel Barbery Novelty Copy Share Image
“The French are often, when it comes to wine, so formal that they border on the ridiculous.” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“In any event, it's done," said Papa-which are the words of a coward to the power of ten.” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never/ Beauty, in this world.” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“And on the way home I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.” — Muriel Barbery Beauty Copy Share Image
Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will. — Muriel Barbery Delight Copy Share Image
People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time. — Muriel Barbery Child Copy Share Image
“This is the end of an epic tale, the story of my coming of age, which, like in the novels of the… — Muriel Barbery Coming of age 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 Art Copy Share Image
When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is… — Muriel Barbery Ability Copy Share Image
Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut… — Muriel Barbery Beauty Copy Share Image
“I thought I had found my calling, I thought I'd understood that in order to heal, I could heal others, or at… — 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 Cats 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 Alive Copy Share Image
“Say what you want, do what you will with all those fine speeches on evolution, civilisation and a ton of other '-tion'… — Muriel Barbery Communication Copy Share Image
“Maybe the greatest anger and frustration come not from unemployment or poverty or the lack of a future but from the feeling… — Muriel Barbery Anger Copy Share Image
“So that’s what it’s like? All of a sudden all possibility just vanishes? A life full of projects, discussions just started, desires… — Muriel Barbery Life 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 Human life Copy Share Image
“Words: repositories for singular realities which they then transform into moments in an anthology, magicians that change the face of reality by… — Muriel Barbery Language 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 Adults Copy Share Image
“I wondered if I'd ever get over the pain of it. It hurt so much I wanted to scream. But I didn't… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“..Maman feeds her plants the way she feeds her children: water and fertilizer for the kentia, green beans and vitamin C for… — Muriel Barbery Children Copy Share Image
“As we all know, poodles are a type of curly-haired dog preferred by petit bourgeois retirees, ladies very much on their own… — Muriel Barbery Animal Copy Share Image
“Every time, it’s the same thing, I feel like crying, my throat goes all tight and I do the best I can… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if… — Muriel Barbery Beauty Copy Share Image
I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that… — Muriel Barbery Body love Copy Share Image
Yes, our eyes may perceive, yet they do not observe; they may believe, yet they do not question; they may receive yet… — 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 Death Copy Share Image
..if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.” — Muriel Barbery Maturity 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 Absurd Copy Share Image
Yes, our eyes may perceive, yet they do not observe; they may believe, yet they do not question; they may receive yet… — 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 Assumption Copy Share Image
So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
