Muriel Barbery Quotes (68 Quotes)
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- Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.
(Muriel Barbery, "Gourmet Rhapsody")
- But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses
(Muriel Barbery, "The Elegance of the Hedgehog")
- If there is one thing I detest, it's when people transform their powerlessness or alienation into a creed.
(Muriel Barbery, "The Elegance of the Hedgehog")
- So much for the movement of the world! It could have been perfection and it was a disaster. It should be experienced in reality and it is pleasure by proxy, like always.
(Muriel Barbery, "The Elegance of the Hedgehog")
- Tasting is an act of pleasure, and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.
(Muriel Barbery, "Gourmet Rhapsody")
- Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.
(Muriel Barbery, "The Elegance of the Hedgehog")
- If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
(Muriel Barbery, "The Elegance of the Hedgehog")
- The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
(Muriel Barbery, "The Elegance of the Hedgehog")
- The French are often, when it comes to wine, so formal that they border on the ridiculous.
(Muriel Barbery, "Gourmet Rhapsody")
- Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts?
(Muriel Barbery, "The Elegance of the Hedgehog")
- If you imagine that getting high at a party and sleeping around is going to propel you into a state of full adulthood, that's like thinking that dessing up as an Indian is going to make you an Indian.
(Muriel Barbery, "The Elegance of the Hedgehog")
- 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, "The Elegance of the Hedgehog")
- The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure.
(Muriel Barbery, "Gourmet Rhapsody")
- Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies.
(Muriel Barbery, "The Elegance of the Hedgehog")
- If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become...will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'?
(Muriel Barbery, "The Elegance of the Hedgehog")
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