Maybe the greatest anger and frustration come not from unemployment or poverty or the lack of a future but from the feeling that you have no culture, because you've been torn between cultures, between incompatible symbols. How can you exist when you don't know where you are?

Muriel Barbery


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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

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...yarının daima bugün olduğunu görmüyor musunuz?

Muriel Barbery


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This is eminently true of many happy moments in life. Freed from the demands of decision and intention, adrift on some inner sea, we observe our various movements as if they belonged to someone else, and yet we admire their involuntary excellence.

Muriel Barbery

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Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.

Muriel Barbery

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What does Art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions, makes them visible, and, in so doing, places a seal of eternity upon them, a seal representing all those works that, by means of a particular form, have incarnated the universal nature of human emotions.

Muriel Barbery


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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.

Muriel Barbery

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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.

Muriel Barbery

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Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure.

Muriel Barbery

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And on the way home I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

Muriel Barbery

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