Muriel Barbery Quotes

A collection of quotes by Muriel Barbery.

Muriel Barbery is a French author, best known for her novel "The Elegance of the Hedgehog." Born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1969, Barbery studied philosophy at the Ã‰cole Normale SupÃ©rieure and later became a professor. She published several works before gaining international recognition with "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" in 2006, which became a bestseller. The novel explores the lives of a concierge and a precocious girl living in an upscale Parisian apartment building. Barbery's writing often delves into philosophical themes and has been praised for its thought-provoking nature.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning t

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

Life Love

When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of

When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?

Beauty Infinity Tea Ritual Ceremony

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the ench

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

Beauty Language Reading

Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach

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.

Death Beauty Hedgehogs

Thinking back on it, this evening, with my heart and my stom

Thinking back on it, this evening, with my heart and my stomach all like jelly, I have finally concluded, maybe that's what life life is about: there's a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty, where time is no longer the same. It's as if those strains of music created a sort of interlude in time, something suspended, an elsewhere that had come to us, an always within never.Yes, that's it, an always within never.

Life Time Never Always

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

Life Death Truth Important Importance

To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if t

To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

Beauty Rich

Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those mo

Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never/Beauty, in this world.

Beauty Moments Never Always