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Muriel Barbery has 92 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless…
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Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it…
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Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you…
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What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a…
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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
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Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and…
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Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.
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Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.
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To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.
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There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in…
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Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next…
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A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can…
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As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we…
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he…
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What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three…
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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
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He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
— Harold MacMillan
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Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
— Alexander Chase
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