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 More Quotes by Muriel Barbery More Quotes From 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? Muriel Barbery becoming causes today Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed. Muriel Barbery melancholy speed The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure. Muriel Barbery garden simple adventure We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware of the fact that we are only ever looking at ourselves in the other person, that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy. Muriel Barbery crazy mirrors people What does art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions. Muriel Barbery doe giving art People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time. Muriel Barbery children people thinking I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world." - Paloma Muriel Barbery this-world moments world If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well. Muriel Barbery friends wells inspiring It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and vitamin C, however much they nurture us, cannot save lives, or sustain our souls. Muriel Barbery insecurity soul would-be ... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere. Muriel Barbery This morning I understand what it means to die: when we disappear, it is the others who die for us, for here I am, lying on a cold pavement and it is not the dying I care about; it has no more meaning this morning that it did yesterday. But never again will I see those I love, and if that is what dying is about then it really is the tragedy they say it is. Muriel Barbery morning mean lying or the first time in my life I understood the meaning of the word never. And it's really awful. You say the word a hundred times a day but you don't really know what you're saying until you're faced with a real "never again." Muriel Barbery awful real firsts Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure. Muriel Barbery roles play helping Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies. Muriel Barbery cat principles firsts Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one hears the wind outside, autumn leaves rustle and take flight, the cat sleeps in a warm pool of light. And, with each swallow, time is sublimed. Muriel Barbery autumn cat sleep shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in. Muriel Barbery vitality support art Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts? Muriel Barbery finest company knows In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song. Muriel Barbery movement voice song 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. Muriel Barbery powerful player wind I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken. Muriel Barbery ability foundation belief
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