..when I say that "he's a truly nasty man," I mean he has so thoroughly renounced everything good that he might have… — Muriel Barbery 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 Copy Share Image
...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond...We never look beyond our assumptions… — Muriel Barbery 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 Copy Share Image
But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea 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
