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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
— Muriel Barbery The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Tags: possibilty, inspiration, hope, friendship

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I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
— Muriel Barbery The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Tags: words, reading, literature, language, books
...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
Tags: motivation, inspiration, future, eternity
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
— Muriel Barbery The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Tags: writing, speech, language
Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their movement and their death.
— Muriel Barbery The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Tags: hedgehogs, death, beauty
So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.
— Muriel Barbery The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Tags: the-elegance-of-the-hedgehog, muriel-barbery, life, irony, humor, death
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