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 BarberyBut 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 BarberyI'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world." - Paloma
Muriel BarberyI 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.
Muriel Barbery