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

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


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



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This page presents the quote "Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their movement and their death.". Author of this quote is Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog. This quote is about death, beauty, hedgehogs,.