All Muriel Barbery Quotes
- Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when… All
- What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient… Brilliance
- Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies. Cat
- ... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere. Anywhere
- This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The… Another Person
- Yes, our eyes may perceive, yet they do not observe; they may believe, yet they do not question; they may receive yet they do not… Believe
- ...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every… Bit
- I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are… Able
- ...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond...We never look beyond our assumptions and, what's worse,… Actually Realized
- It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and… All
- ...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just… Actually Needs
- ..when I say that "he's a truly nasty man," I mean he has so thoroughly renounced everything good that he might have inside him that… Alive
- We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think… Bodies
- ..if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it's… Always Ends
- I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it. Place
- Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged… All
- When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black. Black
- Don't worry Renee, I won't commit suicide and I won't burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments… Always Within
- 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 their… All
- People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time. Children