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 Copy Share Image
This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
..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
Just as teardrops, when they are large and round and compassionate, can leave a long strand washed clean of discord, the summer… — 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
Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art,… — 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
“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
