“People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.” PeopleIfsLifeChildrenEndsLife IsStarsWonderTeachAimAbsurdBowlsGoldfish Book:The Elegance of the Hedgehog Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.” IfsWorldEndsMightSongVoiceWonderMovementRaised Author:Muriel Barbery
“We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about. We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty.” PeopleThinkingWantEndsBodyYoungDiesNextForgetOne DaySolitudeTwentiesDeclineNext DayOld PeopleEightyRottenClose To Death Author:Muriel Barbery
“..if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it's a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today, don't you see?” IfsKnowsEndsTodayLostCausesDealsKnow HowBecomingTomorrowDreadLost Cause Author:Muriel Barbery
“But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed.” PeopleThinkingMindIdeasEndsFoundGoalStupidProduceIntelligentSimplicityProofBugsIngenuityReally Stupid 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
