Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul. — Muriel Barbery Entrusting Copy Share Image
I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world." - Paloma — Muriel Barbery Beauty Copy Share Image
“In any event, it's done," said Papa-which are the words of a coward to the power of ten.” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“The French are often, when it comes to wine, so formal that they border on the ridiculous.” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“I also wonder fearfully what will happen when the only friend I have ever had, the only one who knows everything without… — Muriel Barbery Friendship Copy Share Image
“I'd seen the older children in class look into books for invisible traces, as if they were driven by the same force… — Muriel Barbery Books Copy Share Image
“But enough of phenomenology; it is nothing more than the solitary, endless monologue of consciousness, a hard-core autism that no real cat… — Muriel Barbery Autism Copy Share Image
“The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in… — Muriel Barbery Abundance 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of… — Muriel Barbery Animal Copy Share Image
I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never… — Muriel Barbery Ability Copy Share Image
shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in. — Muriel Barbery Art 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… — 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
“No one seems to have thought of the fact that life is absurd, being a brilliant success has no greater value than… — Muriel Barbery Bitter taste 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
“It's all well and good to have profound thoughts on a regular basis, but I think it's not enough. Well, I mean:… — Muriel Barbery Profound thoughts 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 Contemplation Copy Share Image
“Though all poodles bark snappily at the slightest provocation, they are particularly inclined to do so when nothing at all is happening.… — Muriel Barbery Animal 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… — Muriel Barbery Coffee Copy Share Image
“[H]umans live in a world where it's words and not deeds that have power, where the ultimate skill is mastery of language.… — Muriel Barbery Nature of man Copy Share Image
“The gifts of fate come with a price. For those who have been favored by life’s indulgence, rigorous respect in matters of… — Muriel Barbery Beauty Copy Share Image
“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve… — Muriel Barbery Language Copy Share Image
“In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way… — 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,… — Muriel Barbery Autumn leaves Copy Share Image
“There is always the easy way out, although I am loath to use it. I have no children, I do not watch… — Muriel Barbery Believe in god Copy Share Image
“Truth loves nothing better than simplicity of truth: that is the lesson Columbe Josse ought to have learned from her medieval readings.… — Muriel Barbery Civil servants 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 Behind closed doors Copy Share Image
“True novelty is that which does not grow old, despite the passage of time.” — Muriel Barbery Novelty Copy Share Image
In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things... — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Object lesson: in the world, everything is compensation. When you can't go fast, you push harder” — Muriel Barbery Lesson Copy Share Image
If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate — Muriel Barbery Fate Copy Share Image
“People aim for the stars and they end up like goldfish in a bowl.” — Muriel Barbery Astronomy Copy Share Image
What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity” — Muriel Barbery Eternity Copy Share Image
![“[H]umans live in a world where it's words and not deeds that have power, where the ultimate skill is mastery of language. This is a terrible thing because basically we are primates who've been programmed to eat, sleep, reproduce, conquer and make our territory safe, and the ones who are most…” quote by Muriel Barbery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e6/muriel-barbery-1092_nature-of-man_h-umans-live-in-a-world-where-it-s-words_1699202.jpg)
