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Muriel Barbery Quotes

But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed Picture Quote #1

I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess - Picture Quote #1

Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed Picture Quote #1

I am going to die, but that is of no importance Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Boredom was born on a day of uniformity Picture Quote #1

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Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge Picture Quote #1

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty Picture Quote #1

We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be Picture Quote #1

Because art is life, playing to other rhythms Picture Quote #1

Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well Picture Quote #1

Art is emotion without desire Picture Quote #1

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Shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in Picture Quote #1

I’m afraid to go into myself and see what’s going on in there Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Entrusting one’s life is not the same as opening up one’s soul Picture Quote #1

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Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure... well... everything there is to endure Picture Quote #1

Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both their beauty and their death... Does this mean that this is how we must live our lives? Constantly poised between beauty and death, between movement and its disappearance? Maybe that’s what being alive is all about: so we can track down those moments that are dying Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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’? Picture Quote #1

Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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... 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 Picture Quote #1

.. 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? Picture Quote #1

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don’t love you Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed (Muriel Barbery Quotes) I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess - (Muriel Barbery Quotes) Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed (Muriel Barbery Quotes) I am going to die, but that is of no importance (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 (Muriel Barbery Quotes) Boredom was born on a day of uniformity (Muriel Barbery Quotes) Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge (Muriel Barbery Quotes) Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty (Muriel Barbery Quotes) We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be (Muriel Barbery Quotes) 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 (Muriel Barbery Quotes) Art is emotion without desire (Muriel Barbery Quotes) Shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in (Muriel Barbery Quotes) I’m afraid to go into myself and see what’s going on in there (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 (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 (Muriel Barbery Quotes) 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 Quotes) Entrusting one’s life is not the same as opening up one’s soul (Muriel Barbery Quotes) Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure... well... everything there is to endure (Muriel Barbery Quotes) Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both their beauty and their death... Does this mean that this is how we must live our lives? Constantly poised between beauty and death, between movement and its disappearance? Maybe that’s what being alive is all about: so we can track down those moments that are dying (Muriel Barbery Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls (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 (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 (Muriel Barbery Quotes) .. 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 Quotes) The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don’t love you (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 (Muriel Barbery Quotes) To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things (Muriel Barbery Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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