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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.

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

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

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

Muriel Barbery
Heart, Greatness, Tea

Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat is going by with her tummy dragging close to the floor. This cat has absolutely nothing constructive to do in life and still she is heading toward something, probably an armchair.

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

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