Quote

Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time...When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

Muriel Barbery

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Anfa
Like
Ability
Edges
Placing
Moments
Souls
Enrich
Place
Greatness
Intensely
Soul
Eternity
Fragments
Come
Hearts
Magical
Heart
Becomes
Ritual
Interludes
Things
Takes
Tea
Fleetingly
Time
Small
Edge
Fragment

More quotes by Muriel Barbery

Image
When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
Muriel Barbery
Image
I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
Muriel Barbery
Image
Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.
Muriel Barbery
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
Muriel Barbery
Image
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
Image
Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.
Muriel Barbery
Image
If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become...will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'?
Muriel Barbery
Image
I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
Muriel Barbery
Image
Art is emotion without desire.
Muriel Barbery
Image
I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.
Muriel Barbery
Image
It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and vitamin C, however much they nurture us, cannot save lives, or sustain our souls.
Muriel Barbery
Image
I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
Muriel Barbery
Image
In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
Muriel Barbery
Image
If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
Muriel Barbery
Image
...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
Image
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
Image
Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
Muriel Barbery
Image
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