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Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies.

Muriel Barbery

Cat, Principles, Firsts

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

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I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.

Muriel Barbery

Ugly, May, Want

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

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That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

Muriel Barbery

Real, People, Hedgehogs

"L'Élégance du hérisson (The Elegance of the Hedgehog)". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2008.

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Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.

Muriel Barbery

Animal, World, Insult

"The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Interview with Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

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In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.

Muriel Barbery

Song, Voice, Movement

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

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Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when the orgy of their sugary sweetness is not destined to full some primary need but to coat our palate with all the benevolence of the world.

Muriel Barbery

Needs, World, Coats

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boredom was born on a day of uniformity.

Muriel Barbery

Boredom, Born, Uniformity

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

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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken or read or written a fine sentence. You can recognise a well-tuned phrase or an elegant style. But when you are applying the rules of grammar skilfully, you ascend to another level of the beauty of language. When you use grammar you peel back the layers, to see how it is all put together, to see it quite naked, in a way.

Muriel Barbery

Writing, Thinking, Style

"The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, www.e-reading.club. 2006.

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We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.

Muriel Barbery

Trying, Looks, Assumption

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What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient to the pleasure of showing one's brilliance.

Muriel Barbery

Writing, Heart, Pieces

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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.

Muriel Barbery

Melancholy, Speed

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

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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, Thinking, People

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Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker.

Muriel Barbery

Thinking, Monk, Thinker

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shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.

Muriel Barbery

Art, Support, Vitality

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When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts, a web where hope is trapped.

Muriel Barbery

Home, Heart, Dark

Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.56, Gallic Books

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A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.

Muriel Barbery

Love Life, Men, Bed

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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.

Muriel Barbery

What Matters, Building, Wells

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

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But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.

Muriel Barbery

Princess, World, States

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

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We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about. We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty.

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Thinking, Next Day, People

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What makes the strength of a 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.

Muriel Barbery

Guy, Soldier, Trying

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

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Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.

Muriel Barbery

Delight, Movement, Pleasure

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To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.

Muriel Barbery

Dark, Intelligent, Ugly

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

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... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.

Muriel Barbery

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Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.

Muriel Barbery

Art, Writing, Gestures

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Because art is life, playing to other rhythms.

Muriel Barbery

Art, Rhythm, Art Is

Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.120, Gallic Books

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Born: May 28, 1969
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