Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you… — 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 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 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
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
“The problem is that children believe what adults say and once they're adults themselves they exact their revenge by deceiving their own… — Muriel Barbery 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 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
For the first time in my life I understood the meaning of the word 'never'. And it's really awful. You say the… — Muriel Barbery 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
“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
...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“So much for the movement of the world! It could have been perfection and it was a disaster. It should be experienced… — Muriel Barbery 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 Copy Share Image
“Just by observing the adults around me I understood very early on that life goes by in no time at all, yet… — 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 Copy Share Image
If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become...will I know how to seize that… — 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 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 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
“Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.” — 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
“Words: repositories for singular realities which they then transform into moments in an anthology, magicians that change the face of reality by… — 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
“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
