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Muriel Barbery Quote: “She was dark-haired, fierce; she wore two drop earrings made of crystal; her face was a pure oval tickled with dimples; her skin was golden; and her laugh was like a fire in the night. But on her face you could also read the concentration of a soul whose life is entirely inward, and a mischievous gravity which acquires a silver patina with age.”

101. “She was dark-haired, fierce; she wore two drop earrings made of crystal; her face was a pure oval tickled with dimples; her skin was golden; and her laugh was like a fire in the night. But on her face you could also read the concentration of a soul whose life is entirely inward, and a mischievous gravity which acquires a silver patina with age.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “If there is one thing I detest, it’s when people transform their powerlessness or alienation into a creed.”

102. “If there is one thing I detest, it’s when people transform their powerlessness or alienation into a creed.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.”

103. “Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “I won’t get any better by punishing the people I can’t heal.”

104. “I won’t get any better by punishing the people I can’t heal.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “The French are often, when it comes to wine, so formal that they border on the ridiculous.”

105. “The French are often, when it comes to wine, so formal that they border on the ridiculous.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.”

106. “The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “At times like this you desperately need Art. You seek to reconnect with your spiritual illusions, and you wish fervently that something might rescue you from your biological destiny, so that all poetry and grandeur will not be cast out from the world.”

107. “At times like this you desperately need Art. You seek to reconnect with your spiritual illusions, and you wish fervently that something might rescue you from your biological destiny, so that all poetry and grandeur will not be cast out from the world.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “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.”

108. “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

Muriel Barbery Quote: “But I feel like letting other people be good for me – after all, I’m just an unhappy little girl and even if I’m extremely intelligent, that doesn’t change anything, does it? An unhappy little girl who, just when things are at their worst, has been lucky enough to meet some good people. Morally, do I have the right to let this chance go by?”

109. “But I feel like letting other people be good for me – after all, I’m just an unhappy little girl and even if I’m extremely intelligent, that doesn’t change anything, does it? An unhappy little girl who, just when things are at their worst, has been lucky enough to meet some good people. Morally, do I have the right to let this chance go by?”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “I’m going to stop undoing, deconstructing, I’m going to start building. Even with Colombe I’ll try to do something positive. What matters is what you are doing when you die, and when June 16th comes around, I want to be building.”

110. “I’m going to stop undoing, deconstructing, I’m going to start building. Even with Colombe I’ll try to do something positive. What matters is what you are doing when you die, and when June 16th comes around, I want to be building.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “To tell a group of adolescents who already know how to speak and write that that is the purpose of grammar is like telling someone that they need to read a history of toilets through the ages in order to pee and poop.”

111. “To tell a group of adolescents who already know how to speak and write that that is the purpose of grammar is like telling someone that they need to read a history of toilets through the ages in order to pee and poop.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “Do you know what a dream is? It is not a chimera engendered by our desire, but another way we absorb the substance of the world, and gain access to the same truths as those the mists unveil by concealing the visible and unveiling the invisible... There are no limits to our powers to accomplish and our natural spirit is stronger than anything.”

112. “Do you know what a dream is? It is not a chimera engendered by our desire, but another way we absorb the substance of the world, and gain access to the same truths as those the mists unveil by concealing the visible and unveiling the invisible... There are no limits to our powers to accomplish and our natural spirit is stronger than anything.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “To rich people it must seem that the ordinary little people... experience human emotions with less intensity and greater indifference... The fact that we might be going through hell like any other human being, or that our hearts might be filling with rage as Lucien’s suffering ravaged our lives, or that we might be slowly going to pieces inside, in the torment of fear and horror that death inspires in everyone, did not cross the mind of anyone on these premises.”

113. “To rich people it must seem that the ordinary little people... experience human emotions with less intensity and greater indifference... The fact that we might be going through hell like any other human being, or that our hearts might be filling with rage as Lucien’s suffering ravaged our lives, or that we might be slowly going to pieces inside, in the torment of fear and horror that death inspires in everyone, did not cross the mind of anyone on these premises.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “Important decisions are made by those who are invisible, by the humble people.”

114. “Important decisions are made by those who are invisible, by the humble people.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “Is it possible that we are all sharing the same frenetic agitation, even though we have not sprung from the same earth or the same blood and do not share the same ambition?”

115. “Is it possible that we are all sharing the same frenetic agitation, even though we have not sprung from the same earth or the same blood and do not share the same ambition?”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.”

116. “Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “It would never have crossed her mind spontaneously that somebody might actually need silence. That silence helps you to go inward, that anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence.”

117. “It would never have crossed her mind spontaneously that somebody might actually need silence. That silence helps you to go inward, that anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “Adults have this neurotic relationship with death, it gets blown out of all proportion, they make a huge deal out of it when in fact it’s really the most banal thing there is.”

118. “Adults have this neurotic relationship with death, it gets blown out of all proportion, they make a huge deal out of it when in fact it’s really the most banal thing there is.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “Rain filtered in scattered drops from the leaves; everywhere, an extraordinary moss ruled supreme over its private kingdom; thick and moving, poised on root and stone, it seemed to glitter.”

119. “Rain filtered in scattered drops from the leaves; everywhere, an extraordinary moss ruled supreme over its private kingdom; thick and moving, poised on root and stone, it seemed to glitter.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “Where’s the risk?′ he asked. ‘The mere fact of being alive means that all the risks have already been taken.”

120. “Where’s the risk?′ he asked. ‘The mere fact of being alive means that all the risks have already been taken.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “The little girl spent most of her hours of leisure in the branches. When her family did not know where to find her, they would go to the trees, the tall beech to start with, the one that stood to the north above the lean-to, for that was where she liked to daydream.”

121. “The little girl spent most of her hours of leisure in the branches. When her family did not know where to find her, they would go to the trees, the tall beech to start with, the one that stood to the north above the lean-to, for that was where she liked to daydream.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “There’s nothing terribly original about the fact that I put music on in the morning, just that it sets the tone for the rest of the day. It’s very simple but also sort of complicated to explain: I believe that we can choose our moods: because we are aware that there are several mood-strata and we have the means to gain access to them.”

122. “There’s nothing terribly original about the fact that I put music on in the morning, just that it sets the tone for the rest of the day. It’s very simple but also sort of complicated to explain: I believe that we can choose our moods: because we are aware that there are several mood-strata and we have the means to gain access to them.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “If a person is not prepared to suffer, they are not prepared to live.”

123. “If a person is not prepared to suffer, they are not prepared to live.”

— Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery Quote: “We have to live with the certainty that we’ll get old and that it won’t look nice or be good or feel happy. And tell ourselves that it’s nowt hat matters: to build something, now, at any price, using all our strength.”

124. “We have to live with the certainty that we’ll get old and that it won’t look nice or be good or feel happy. And tell ourselves that it’s nowt hat matters: to build something, now, at any price, using all our strength.”

— Muriel Barbery

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