“I wonder if I am not turning into a contemplative . . . But those roses . They were something else. I… — 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things... — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language. — 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 Copy Share Image
“I have finally concluded, maybe that's what life is about: there's a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty,… — Muriel Barbery 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 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
“The gifts of fate come with a price. For those who have been favored by life’s indulgence, rigorous respect in matters of… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Oh my gosh, I thought, does this mean that this is how we must live our lives? Constantly poised between beauty and… — 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 Copy Share Image
I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world." - Paloma — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“We have a knowledge of harmony, anchored deep within. It is this knowledge that enables us, at every instant, to apprehend quality… — Muriel Barbery 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 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 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, teach the teachers; and those who can't teach the teachers go into… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are I've assigned myself a new… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“A terroir only exists by virtue of one's childhood mythology . . . we have invented these words of tradition rooted deep in the… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“The tea ritual: such a precise repetition of the same gestures and the same tastes; accession to simple,authentic and refined sensations, a license given… — 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 mental assumptions… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“I wonder if I am not turning into a contemplative . . . But those roses . They were something else. I was having… — 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 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 it's really… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
