People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.
("Gourmet Rhapsody")
More Quotes from Muriel Barbery:
Thinking back on it, this evening, with my heart and my stomach all jelly, I have finally concluded, maybe that's what 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 a never.Muriel Barbery
If there is one thing I detest, it's when people transform their powerlessness or alienation into a creed.
Muriel Barbery
There was only one thing I wanted: to be left alone, without too many demand upon my person, so that for a few moments each day I might be allowed to assuage my hunger.
Muriel Barbery
Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.
Muriel Barbery
What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.
Muriel Barbery
It is always reassuring to be disabused of one's own paranoia.
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