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 BarberyMusic plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure.
Muriel BarberyBeauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. Itโs the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both their beauty and their death. ...Does this mean that this is how we must live our lives? Constantly poised between beauty and death, between movement and its disappearance? Maybe thatโs what being alive is all about: so we can track down those moments that are dying.
Muriel BarberyWe never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.
Muriel Barbery