"Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in……" — Muriel Barbery
"Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge."
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92 Quotes by Muriel Barbery
Muriel Barbery has 92 quotes on this site.
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Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like…
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Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of…
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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…
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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…
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Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work…
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