Muriel Barbery Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.

  Muriel Barbery

  Lying, Believe, Mirrors

• This morning I understand what it means to die: when we disappear, it is the others who die for us, for here I am, lying on a cold pavement and it is not the dying I care about; it has no more meaning this morning that it did yesterday. But never again will I see those I love, and if that is what dying is about then it really is the tragedy they say it is.

  Muriel Barbery

  Morning, Lying, Mean

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

• 'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.

  Muriel Barbery

  Lying, Believe, Adults

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

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