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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
Muriel Barbery
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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
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More quotes by Muriel Barbery
We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware of the fact that we are only ever looking at ourselves in the other person, that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy.
Muriel Barbery
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
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
Muriel Barbery
..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
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
With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.
Muriel Barbery
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
I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.
Muriel Barbery
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
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
In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
Muriel Barbery
The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
Muriel Barbery
Art is emotion without desire.
Muriel Barbery
If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate
Muriel Barbery
Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when the orgy of their sugary sweetness is not destined to full some primary need but to coat our palate with all the benevolence of the world.
Muriel Barbery
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
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
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
I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
Muriel Barbery
...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity. That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
Muriel Barbery