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Own Quotes by Muriel Barbery
- 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…
- 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…
- This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The…
- ...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…
- 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…
- I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
- But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be…
- 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…
- Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can…
- Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov