“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.” BitsEffectsEssenceProfoundExtraordinaryCloudsDustPreservesCheeksAlchemySilkVelvetCaressDensitySashimi Author:Muriel Barbery
“'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.” KnowsBelieveLyingRealizingLateAdultsUniversalToo Late Author:Muriel Barbery
“What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of signals, it's the strength he's able to concentrate within himself, by staying centered. That Maori player was like a tree, a great indestructible oak with deep roots and a powerful radiance- everyone could feel it. And yet you also got the impression that the great oak could fly, that it would be as quick as the wind, despite, or perhaps because of, its deep roots.” FeelsTryingWholeUseWould BeAbleGuyEnergyPowerfulPlayerTreeWindRootsSoldierImpressionDespiteStayingSignalsIntimidatingOther GuysOaksRadianceIndestructibleDeep Roots Author:Muriel Barbery
“I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.” PeopleI CanHeal Book:The Elegance of the Hedgehog Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.” HeartAbilityGreatnessTeaRitualSmall ThingsAbility To See Author:Muriel Barbery
“Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.” SoulLife IsOpeningOpening UpEntrusting Author:Muriel Barbery
“Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and breath, and they spend their entire lives conversing about mankind as if they were robots, and about things as though they have no soul and must be reduced to what can be said about them - all at the whim of their own subjective inspiration.” PeopleIfsGivingSaidSoulInspirationMankindObjectsBreathsContemplationIncapableRobotsSubjectiveWhim Author:Muriel Barbery
“Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.” TalentShapesInvisibleInventing Author:Muriel Barbery
“Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.” PleasureMovementStriveDelightForgetfulness Author:Muriel Barbery
“To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.” DarkPoorIntelligentUglyOur SocietyForgivenDisillusioned Author:Muriel Barbery
“There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.” FirstsFeelingsHumanityWonderTreeNostalgiaSense Of WonderInsignificance Author:Muriel Barbery
“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.” WritingPersonsArtEndsPleasureArtisticWorks Of ArtGesturesTasting Author:Muriel Barbery
