“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
When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“This is the end of an epic tale, the story of my coming of age, which, like in the novels of the… — Muriel Barbery Coming of age 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 Child Copy Share Image
People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just… — Muriel Barbery Absurd Copy Share Image
“Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.” — Muriel Barbery Maturity 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
“Personally I think there is only one thing to do: find the task we have been placed on this earth to do,… — Muriel Barbery Inspirational-quotes-about-life Copy Share Image
Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“But I feel like letting other people be good for me--after all, I'm just an unhappy little girl and even if I'm… — Muriel Barbery Good people Copy Share Image
“How can one betray oneself to such a degree? What corruption greater even than power can lead us to thus deny the… — 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
“Oh my gosh, I thought, does this mean that this is how we must live our lives? Constantly poised between beauty and… — Muriel Barbery Beauty Copy Share Image
“I despise this false lucidity that comes with age. The truth is that they are just like everyone else: nothing more than… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“I take the measure of the ridiculous, superfluous cats who wander through our lives with all the placidity and indifference of an… — Muriel Barbery Cats Copy Share Image
“And yet there’s nothing to understand. The problem is that children believe what adults say and, once they’re adults themselves, they exact… — Muriel Barbery Children Copy Share Image
“Like Okakura, I know that tea is no minor beverage. When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of… — Muriel Barbery Autumn leaves Copy Share Image
“The problem is that children believe what adults say and once they're adults themselves they exact their revenge by deceiving their own… — Muriel Barbery Children Copy Share Image
“Desire! It carries us and crucifies us, delivers us every new day to a battlefield where, on the eve, the battle was… — Muriel Barbery Desire 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 Destiny Copy Share Image
“Yes, this sudden transmutation in the order of things seems to enhance our pleasure, as if consecrating the unchanging nature of a… — Muriel Barbery Human life Copy Share Image
“My name is Renee. I am 54 years old. For 27 years I have been the concierge at number 7, rue de… — Muriel Barbery Live alone Copy Share Image
“Any game where the goal is to build territory has to be beautiful. There may be phases of combat, but they are… — Muriel Barbery Death Copy Share Image
..if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what… — Muriel Barbery Death Copy Share Image
“I thought I had found my calling, I thought I'd understood that in order to heal, I could heal others, or at… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when… — Muriel Barbery Alive Copy Share Image
“I am struck with incredible force by this proof that sight is like a hand that tries to seize flowing water. Yes,… — Muriel Barbery Flowing water 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 Adults Copy Share Image
“The pathways of hell are hardly foreign; we shall end up there one day if we tarry too long. From a passageway… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut… — Muriel Barbery Beauty Copy Share Image
When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is… — Muriel Barbery Ability 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 Food Copy Share Image
“They didn't recognize me," I say. I come to a halt in the middle of the sidewalk, completely flabbergasted. "They didn't recognize… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“I'm going to say something really banal, but intelligence, in itself, is neither valuable nor interesting. Very intelligent people have devoted their… — Muriel Barbery Intelligence Copy Share Image
Just as teardrops, when they are large and round and compassionate, can leave a long strand washed clean of discord, the summer… — Muriel Barbery Breathing Copy Share Image
“Maybe the greatest anger and frustration come not from unemployment or poverty or the lack of a future but from the feeling… — Muriel Barbery Anger Copy Share Image
“To write entire pages of dazzling prose about a tomato -- for Pierre Arthens reviews food as if he were telling a… — Muriel Barbery Writer Copy Share Image
“Maybe the greatest anger and frustration come not from unemployment or poverty or the lack of a future but from the feeling… — Muriel Barbery Anger Copy Share Image
