Quotes by Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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Any game where the goal is to build territory has to be beautiful. There may be phases of combat, but they are only mean — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be. — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the m — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty. — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language. — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well. — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible w — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beaut — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Thinking back on it, this evening, with my heart and my stomach all like jelly, I have finally concluded, maybe that’s w — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
I suddenly felt my spirit expand, for I was capable of grasping the utter beauty of the trees. — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nations disintegrate, whil — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Here are all these people, full of heartache or hatred or desire, and we all have our troubles and the school year is fi — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whol — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
since destiny always rings three times... — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
With her it's as if a text was written so that we can identify the characters, the narrator, the setting, the plot, the — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul. — Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog