Quotes by : Muriel Barbery

Personally I think there is only one thing to do: find the task we have been placed on this earth to....

Then there was Jeannot, who was reminded of another war and who was discovering inside himself the roots....

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

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

I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained....

I understood that I was suffering because I couldn't make anyone else around me feel better.

Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer....

It would never have crossed her mind spontaneously that somebody might actually need silence. That silence....

Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nations....

But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have....