"We think we can make honey without sharing……" — Muriel Barbery
"We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die."
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Muriel Barbery
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92 Quotes by Muriel Barbery
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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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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…
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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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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
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Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
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