All Muriel Barbery Quotes
- Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there… Affectation
- Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a… Alchemy
- Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult… Adult
- What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of… Able
- I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal. Any
- When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Ability
- Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul. Entrusting
- Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and breath, and they… All
- Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge. Causing
- Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will. Brings
- To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven. All
- There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our… Feeling
- Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end,… Act
- I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there. Afraid
- Because art is life, playing to other rhythms. Art
- That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. - The Elegance of the Hedgehog Build
- Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. Building
- Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker. Better
- The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again. Among
- What makes the strength of a soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of… Able
- The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects. Cat
- Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we… Aggressive
- I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something… Appear
- Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty. Attain
- I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers. Apprehension