Thinking back on it, this evening, with my heart and my stomach all like jelly, I have finally concluded, maybe thats what life is about: theres a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty, where time is no longer the same. Its as if those strains of music created a sort of interlude in time, something suspended, an elsewhere that had come to us, an always within never. Yes, thats it, an always within never. Dont worry Rene, I wont commit suicide and I wont burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, Ill be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world.
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Muriel Barbery was French novelist and philosophy teacher. Muriel Barbery is a French novelist and philosophy teacher. Her 2006 novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog quickly sold more than a million copies in several countries. Read more on Wikipedia →