"Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog:……" — Muriel Barbery
"Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary--and terrible elegant."
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Muriel Barbery
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92 Quotes by Muriel Barbery
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