“ Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a milky density unknown even by clouds.... my cheeks recalled the… 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… Muriel Barbery
“ To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die. Muriel Barbery
“ Clara looked at Maria and tried to understand what she must do so that Maria would be able to see her. But the little French girl cast all around her the bronze of infinite solitude. Muriel Barbery
“ There are days when I feel I have been able to grasp all there is to know in one single gaze, as if invisible branches suddenly spring out of nowhere, weaving together all the disparate strands of my… Muriel Barbery
“ Describía a un catedrático universitario de letras clásicas que antaño habría escuchado a Bach, leído a Mauriac y consumido películas de arte y ensayo, y que, hoy, escucha a Haendel y al rapero MC Sol… Muriel Barbery
“ I suddenly felt my spirit expand, for I was capable of grasping the utter beauty of the trees. 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
“ Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their movement and their death. Muriel Barbery
“ 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… Muriel Barbery
“ This is eminently true of many happy moments in life. Freed from the demands of decision and intention, adrift on some inner sea, we observe our various movements as if they belonged to someone else,… Muriel Barbery
“ Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never/Beauty, in this world. Muriel Barbery
“ Personally I think there is only one thing to do: find the task we have been placed on this earth to do, and accomplish it as best we can, with all our strength, without making things complicated or t… Muriel Barbery
“ Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls. Muriel Barbery
“ Just as teardrops, when they are large and round and compassionate, can leave a long strand washed clean of discord, the summer rain as it washes away the motionless dust can bring to a person's soul… Muriel Barbery
“ The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects, a concept which I find intellectually interesting, but unfortunately our cats have such drooping bellies that this does not… Muriel Barbery
“ 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.… Muriel Barbery
“ To write a profound thought, I have to put myself onto a very special stratum, otherwise the ideas and words just don't come. I have to forget myself and at the same time be superconcentrated. But it'… Muriel Barbery
“ ... we absolutely mustn't forget it. We mustn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about (so it is to ret… Muriel Barbery
