Quotes by Muriel Barbery

About Muriel Barbery:

Muriel Barbery is a French novelist and professor of philosophy.
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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's not a question of the will, it is a mechanism I ...

Muriel Barbery

Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.

Muriel Barbery

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

Muriel Barbery

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

Muriel Barbery

Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.

Muriel Barbery

Personne ne semble avoir songé au fait que si l'existence est absurde, y réussir brillamment n'a pas plus de valeur qu'y échouer.

Muriel Barbery

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

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 build the present, with real plans, made by livin...

Muriel Barbery

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 effects of its profound caress.

Muriel Barbery

—Elle m'a pas recconue! —C'est parce qu'elle vous a jamais vue.

Muriel Barbery

Author Bio

  • NameMuriel Barbery
  • DescriptionFrench writer
  • BornMay 28, 1969
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Novelist