“Tutti pensano che i bambini non sanno niente. Viene da chiedersi se i grandi sono stati mai bambini.” — Muriel Barbery Amor Copy Share Image
“If you change the way you crunch into something, it is like trying something new.” — Muriel Barbery Change Copy Share Image
When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. — Muriel Barbery Ability Copy Share Image
Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker. — Muriel Barbery Conclusion Copy Share Image
I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers. — Muriel Barbery Apprehension Copy Share Image
“humans live in a world where it’s words and not deeds that have power, where the ultimate skill is mastery of language.” — Muriel Barbery Language Copy Share Image
So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“If you imagine that getting high at a party and sleeping around is going to propel you into a state of full… — 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 Assumption 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… — Muriel Barbery Assumption Copy Share Image
Yes, our eyes may perceive, yet they do not observe; they may believe, yet they do not question; they may receive yet… — 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
“I don't think it has ever occurred to her that a text is written above all to be read and to arouse… — Muriel Barbery Books Copy Share Image
Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of… — Muriel Barbery Ability Copy Share Image
“When we move, we are in a way de-structured by our movement toward something: we are both here and at the same… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet,… — Muriel Barbery Astonishment Copy Share Image
We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't… — Muriel Barbery Body Copy Share Image
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if… — Muriel Barbery Beauty Copy Share Image
“A teenager who pretends to be an adult is still a teenager. If you imagine that getting high at a party and… — Muriel Barbery Adulthood Copy Share Image
This morning I understand what it means to die: when we disappear, it is the others who die for us, for here… — Muriel Barbery Care 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
I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“For anyone who wants to understand the art of storytelling, this film [The Hunt for Red October] should suffice; one wonders why… — Muriel Barbery Art Copy Share Image
“... we absolutely mustn't forget it. We mustn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to… — Muriel Barbery Aging Copy Share Image
“As we all know, poodles are a type of curly-haired dog preferred by petit bourgeois retirees, ladies very much on their own… — Muriel Barbery Animal Copy Share Image
“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if… — Muriel Barbery Beauty 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
“But that's not even the problem. What his sentence (Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach teach… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“So much for the movement of the world! It could have been perfection and it was a disaster. It should be experienced… — Muriel Barbery Disaster Copy Share Image
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in… — Muriel Barbery Feelings 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 Art Copy Share Image
...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep… — Muriel Barbery Anomalies 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… — Muriel Barbery Brilliance 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… — Muriel Barbery Body love Copy Share Image
With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life. — Muriel Barbery Art Copy Share Image
Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will. — Muriel Barbery Delight Copy Share Image
“And on the way home I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.” — Muriel Barbery Beauty Copy Share Image
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