Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of… — Muriel Barbery Ability Copy Share Image
“When we move, we are in a way de-structured by our movement toward something: we are both here and at the same… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet,… — Muriel Barbery Astonishment Copy Share Image
“A teenager who pretends to be an adult is still a teenager. If you imagine that getting high at a party and… — Muriel Barbery Adulthood Copy Share Image
We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't… — Muriel Barbery Body 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
“Don't we all deal with life the way we do our military service? Doing what we can, while we wait either to… — Muriel Barbery Behind closed doors 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
