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Famous Muriel Barbery Quotes
“I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.”
“Because art is life, playing to other rhythms.”
“That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.”
“Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.”
“Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker.”
“The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.”
“Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.”
“What does art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions.”
“The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects.”
“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.”
“I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.”
“In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.”
“Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts?”
“If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.”
“I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”
“Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies.”
