To tell a group of adolescents who already know how to speak and write that that is the purpose of grammar is like telling someone that they need to read a history of toilets through the ages in order to pee and poop.
Muriel BarberyPersonally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
Muriel BarberyI belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.
Muriel BarberyTags: humor
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.
Muriel BarberyI find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.
Muriel BarberyGod appeases our animal fears and the unbearable prospect that someday all our pleasures will cease.
Muriel BarberyIn the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
Muriel BarberyDo you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts?
Muriel BarberyIn 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.
Muriel BarberyMadame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary--and terrible elegant.
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