Gourmet Rhapsody
Muriel Barbery
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.”
“People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.”
“I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really their own self that they're mad at.”
“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.”
“Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.”
“I am going to die, but that is of no importance.”
“Words: repositories for singular realities which they then transform into memories in an anthology, magicians that change the face of reality by adorning it with the right to become memorable, to be placed in a library of memories.”
“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.”
“A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.”
“Because art is life, playing to other rhythms.”
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