Muriel Barbery Quotes about Giving

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I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something that I neither knew nor thought I might want to know. This painless birth, like an

I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something that I neither knew nor thought I might want to know. This painless birth, like an unsolicited proof, gives me untold pleasure, and with neither toil nor certainty but the joy of frank astonishment I follow the pen that is guiding and supporting me.

Muriel Barbery

Teaching, Giving, Joy

"The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2, 2013.

Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and breath, and they spend their entire lives conversing about mankind as if they were robots, and about things as though they have no soul and must be reduced to what can be said about them - all at the whim of their own subjective inspiration.

Muriel Barbery

Inspiration, People, Giving

"The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2008.