Elegance Of The Hedgehog Quotes & Sayings

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. - The Elegance of the Hedgehog — Muriel Barbery

The Gospel of Christ was the most powerful sociological leveler in history, — Eric Metaxas

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

All this time I had thought my son was striving to be my mirror opposite, but he wasn't - he had become my polar opposite instead, and that had sent him careering away. — Steve Toltz

The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious — Edward F Edinger

Until that time I had ascribed the reasons for my cultural eclecticism to my condition as a proletarian autodidact. As I have already explained, I have spent every moment of my existence that could be spared from work in reading, watching films, and listening to music.
Muriel Barbery, translated by Alison Anderson, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, 2008 — Muriel Barbery

It's funny ... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing ... the line you are not to cross. — Daniel Tosh

I walk around the room eating goose liver and puffy bread until there's a knock on the door. Effie's calling me to dinner. Good. I'm starving. — Suzanne Collins

Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary
and terrible elegant. — Muriel Barbery

Art is life playing to other rhythms."
"The Elegance of the Hedgehog — Muriel Barbery