Muriel Barbery Citas

• 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

  Tree, Feelings, Humanity

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• 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 Barbery

  Life, Stars, Children

  Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.15, Gallic Books

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• . . tal vez en eso consiste la vida: hay un lof de desesperación, pero también algún que otro momento de belleza, en el que el tiempo ya no es el mismo. . . [como] algo suspendido. . . un en otra parte . . . un siempre dentro de un nunca. Sí, eso es, un siempre dentro de un nunca.

  Muriel Barbery

  Despair, Odd, Moments

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• ...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity. That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

  Muriel Barbery

  Inspirational, Real, People

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

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• Madame 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.

  Muriel Barbery

  Real, Simple, Feelings

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• When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature?

  Muriel Barbery

  Memories, Enchantment, Needs

  Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.96, Gallic Books

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• I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

  Muriel Barbery

  Enchantment, Spirit, Language

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

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• Personalmente creo que la gramática es una forma de alcanzar la belleza.

  Muriel Barbery

  Thinking, Way, Grammar

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2, 2013.

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• With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

  Muriel Barbery

  Art, Friendship Love, Human Life

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

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• When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

  Muriel Barbery

  Sky, Black, Burning

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• To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.

  Muriel Barbery

  Adequate, Forgiven, Vulgarity

  Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.34, Gallic Books

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• Cuando el té se convierte en ritual, ocupa su lugar en el corazón de nuestra capacidad para ver la grandeza en las pequeñas cosas. ¿Dónde se encuentra la belleza? ¿En las grandes cosas que, como todo lo demás, están condenadas a morir, o en las pequeñas cosas que no aspiran a nada y, sin embargo, saben engarzar una joya del infinito en un solo instante?

  Muriel Barbery

  Heart, Greatness, Jewels

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• Live, or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are, I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing, deconstructing, I'm going to start building. What matters is what you are doing when you die... I want to be building.

  Muriel Barbery

  What Matters, Want, Building

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September, 2008.

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• If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.

  Muriel Barbery

  Inspiring, Friends, Wells

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, 2008.

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• The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

  Muriel Barbery

  Real, Love You, Leaving

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• La belleza consiste en su propio paso, justo cuando la alcanzamos. Es la configuración efímera de las cosas en el momento, cuando ves tanto su belleza como su muerte. ...¿Significa esto que así es como debemos vivir nuestras vidas? ¿En constante equilibrio entre la belleza y la muerte, entre el movimiento y su desaparición? Tal vez en eso consista estar vivo: en que podamos rastrear esos momentos que mueren.

  Muriel Barbery

  Mean, Track, Dying

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• ..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

  Today, Causes, Becoming

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• Art is emotion without desire.

  Muriel Barbery

  Art, Desire, Emotion

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, 2006.

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• Creemos que podemos hacer miel sin compartir el destino de las abejas, pero en realidad no somos más que pobres abejas, destinadas a cumplir nuestra tarea y luego morir.

  Muriel Barbery

  Fate, Thinking, Honey

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• But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed.

  Muriel Barbery

  Stupid, Intelligent, Thinking

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2, 2013.

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• Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.

  Muriel Barbery

  Shapes, Talent, Invisible

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• 'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.

  Muriel Barbery

  Lying, Believe, Adults

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2008.

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• In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.

  Muriel Barbery

  Lying, Believe, Mirrors

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• In 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 Barbery

  Heart, Destiny, Jewels

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August, 2006.

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• ...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence.

  Muriel Barbery

  Silence, Needs, Inward

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