Quote

To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for 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
Adequate
Forgiven
Intelligence
Longer
Beauty
Seems
Even
Vulgarity
Things
Compensation

More quotes by Muriel Barbery

Image
With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.
Muriel Barbery
Image
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
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 belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.
Muriel Barbery
Image
I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really their own self that they're mad at.
Muriel Barbery
Image
The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure.
Muriel Barbery
Image
Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
Muriel Barbery
Image
Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat is going by with her tummy dragging close to the floor. This cat has absolutely nothing constructive to do in life and still she is heading toward something, probably an armchair.
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
Art is emotion without desire.
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
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
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
We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others we just meet ourselves.
Muriel Barbery
Image
. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same . . . [like] something suspended . . . an elsewhere . . . an always within a never. Yes, that's is, an always within a never.
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
I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
Muriel Barbery
Image
Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
Muriel Barbery
Image
But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.
Muriel Barbery
Image
..if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it's a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today, don't you see?
Muriel Barbery