01c. 2000 ADJust as teardrops, when they are large and round and compassionate, can leave a long strand washed clean of discord, the summer rain as it washes away the motionless dust can bring to a person's soul something like endless breathing.Muriel Barbery / quote ↗
02c. 2000 ADWine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.Muriel Barbery / quote ↗
03c. 2000 ADPersonally I think there is only one thing to do: find the task we have been placed on this earth to do, and accomplish it as best we can, with all our strength, without making things complicated or thinking there's anything divine about our animal nature. This is the only way we will ever feel that we have been doing something constructive when death comes to get us.Muriel Barbery / quote ↗
04c. 2000 ADBecause from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never/Beauty, in this world.Muriel Barbery / quote ↗
05c. 2000 ADThis 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 / quote ↗
06c. 2000 ADShe was dark-haired, fierce; she wore two drop earrings made of crystal; her face was a pure oval tickled with dimples; her skin was golden; and her laugh was like a fire in the night. But on her face you could also read the concentration of a soul whose life is entirely inward, and a mischievous gravity which acquires a silver patina with age.Muriel Barbery / quote ↗
