Muriel Barbery Quotes

There Are Times, However, When Life Becomes A Phantom Comedy. As If Aroused From A Dream, We Watch Ourselves In Action And, Shocked To Realize How Much Vitality Is Required Simply To Support Our Primitive Requirements, We Wonder, Bewildered, Where ARt Fits In. All Our Frenzied Nudging And Posturing Suddenly Becomes Utterly Insignificant; Our Cozy Little Nest Is Reduced To Some Futile Barbarian Custom, And Our Position In Society, Hard-won And Eternally Precarious, Is But A Crude Vanity. As For Our Progeny, We View Them Now With New Eyes, And We Are Horrified, Because Without The Cloak Of Altruism, The Preproductive Act Seems Extraordinarily Out Of Place. All That Is Left Is Sexual Pleasure, But If It Is Relegated To A Mere Manifestation Of Primal Abjection, It Will Fail To Proportion, Because A Loveless Session Of Gymnastics Is Not What We Have Struggled So Hard To Master.
Eternity Eludes Us.

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