“Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never/ Beauty, in this world.” MomentsBeautyNeverAlways Book:The Elegance of the Hedgehog Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch of perfection in the flow of human dealings - I lean my head slowly to one side, reflect on the camellia on the moss on the temple, reflect on a cup of tea, while outside the wind is rustling foliage, the forward rush of life is crystalized in a brilliant jewel of a moment that knows neither projects nor future, human destiny is rescued from the pale succession of days, glows with light at last and, surpassing time, warms my tranquil heart.” KnowsHumansHeartMomentsLightLastsLife IsSidesDestinyChangedWindProjectsFlowPerfectionEternityBrilliantBarsCupsTeaRisingTemplesSplitsPaleJewelsSuccessionUnfamiliarTranquilMossCups Of TeaDealingsSurpassingFoliageCamellias Author:Muriel Barbery
“Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time...When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.” HeartSoulMomentsAbilityGreatnessEternityEdgesTeaRitualFragmentsSmall ThingsAbility To See Author:Muriel Barbery
“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?” KnowsHeartMomentsDiesFoundAbilityKnow HowGreatnessGreat ThingsTeaRitualInfinityDoomedAspireJewelsSmall ThingsAbility To See Author:Muriel Barbery
“. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same . . . [like] something suspended . . . an elsewhere . . . an always within a never. Yes, that's is, an always within a never.” MomentsDespairOddElsewhereLike SomethingSuspended Author:Muriel Barbery
“Don't worry Renee, I won't commit suicide and I won't burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world.” WorldMomentsWorryThis WorldSuicideCommit Author:Muriel Barbery
“As a child I often wondered whether I would be allowed to live such moments- to inhabit the slow, majestic ballet of the snowflakes, to be released at last from the dreary frenzy of time. Is that what it feels to be naked? All one's clothes are gone, yet one's mind is overladen with finery.” FeelsMindChildrenMomentsWould BeLastsGoneClothesNakedBalletDrearyMajesticFrenzySnowflake Author:Muriel Barbery
“Because beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.” MomentsMovementPassingPassingsEphemeralConfiguration Author:Muriel Barbery
“Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat is going by with her tummy dragging close to the floor. This cat has absolutely nothing constructive to do in life and still she is heading toward something, probably an armchair.” PeopleWritingWellsStillsMomentsMovingCatConstitutionConstructiveHeadingsAbsolutely NothingArmchairs Author:Muriel Barbery
“I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world." - Paloma” WorldMomentsThis World Author:Muriel Barbery
“Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both their beauty and their death. ...Does this mean that this is how we must live our lives? Constantly poised between beauty and death, between movement and its disappearance? Maybe that’s what being alive is all about: so we can track down those moments that are dying.” MeanDoeMomentsOur LivesAliveDyingMovementTrackPassingPassingsEphemeralDisappearanceConfiguration Author:Muriel Barbery
“How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death.” SaidImportantMomentsFactsDyingOne DayImportant Things Author:Muriel Barbery
