Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“So here is my profound thought for the day: This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“This is eminently true of many happy moments in life. Freed from the demands of decision and intention, adrift on some inner… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“There are times, however, when life becomes a phantom comedy. As if aroused from a dream, we watch ourselves in action and,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“At times like this you desperately need Art. You seek to reconnect with your spiritual illusions, and you wish fervently that something… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“...because I think that each time it's a new construction, as if everything has been reduced to ashes during the night, and… — 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
That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. — 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
“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
I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world." - Paloma — 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
...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
“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
“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
“So here is my profound thought for the day: this is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
As a child I often wondered whether I would be allowed to live such moments- to inhabit the slow, majestic ballet of… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“No one was the least bit hungry anymore, but that is precisely what is so good about the moment devoted to pastries;… — 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
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
“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
