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Muriel Barbery Quotes: "People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd."

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature."

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.




Muriel Barbery Quotes: "Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty."

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people."

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.




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

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



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "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."

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.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life."

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.




Muriel Barbery Quotes: "The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you."

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things."

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge."

Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence."

...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late."

'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.




Muriel Barbery Quotes: "How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death."

How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self."

...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it."

What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be."

We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble."

As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life."

A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time."

People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well."

If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient to the pleasure of showing one's brilliance."

What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient to the pleasure of showing one's brilliance.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls."

Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "Because beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death."

Because beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "What does art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions."

What does art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken."

I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world." - Paloma"

I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world." - Paloma



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed."

Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate"

If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering."

As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven."

To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb."

So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul."

Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die."

To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "I am going to die, but that is of no importance."

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there."

I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves."

We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers."

I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song."

In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will."

Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "boredom was born on a day of uniformity."

boredom was born on a day of uniformity.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts, a web where hope is trapped."

When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts, a web where hope is trapped.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "They didn't recognize me," I repeat. He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm. "It is because they have never seen you," he says. "I would recognize you anywhere."

They didn't recognize me," I repeat. He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm. "It is because they have never seen you," he says. "I would recognize you anywhere.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere."

... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying."

Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in."

shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses."

But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast."

Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "Because art is life, playing to other rhythms."

Because art is life, playing to other rhythms.



Muriel Barbery Quotes: "Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well."

Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.