"I thought: pity the poor in spirit who……" — Muriel Barbery

"I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language."

— Muriel Barbery

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92 Quotes by Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery has 92 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like…
Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence…
Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe.…
What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending…
I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic…
Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.
Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of…
To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all…
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much…

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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