quotes by Amélie Nothomb
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"Il y a des beautés qui sautent aux yeux et d'autres qui sont écrites en hyéroglyphes: on met du temps à déchiffrer leur splendeur mais, quand elle est apparue, elle est plus belle que la beauté."
— Amélie Nothomb
— Amélie Nothomb
"God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it."
— Amélie Nothomb
— Amélie Nothomb
"Water beneath me, water above me, water in me--I was water. How appropriate that the one definition of the Japanese character for my name was "rain." I, too, was precious and copious, inoffensive and deadly, silent and raucous, joyous and despicable, live-giving and corrosive, pure and grasping, patient and insidious, musical and off-key--but more than any of that, and beyond all those things, I was invulnerable.
...From the heights and depths of my diluvian life, I knew that I was rain and rain was rapture. Some realised it would be best to accept me, let me overwhelm them, let me be who I was. There was no greater luxury than to fall to earth, in sprinkles or in buckets, lashing faces and drenching countryside, swelling sources and overflowing rivers, spoiling weddings and consecrating burials, the blesssing and curse of the skies.
My rainy childhood thrived in Japan like a fish in water.
Tired of my unending passion for my element, Nishio-san would finally call to me, "Out of the lake! You'll dissolve!"
Too late. I had dissolved long before."
— Amélie Nothomb
...From the heights and depths of my diluvian life, I knew that I was rain and rain was rapture. Some realised it would be best to accept me, let me overwhelm them, let me be who I was. There was no greater luxury than to fall to earth, in sprinkles or in buckets, lashing faces and drenching countryside, swelling sources and overflowing rivers, spoiling weddings and consecrating burials, the blesssing and curse of the skies.
My rainy childhood thrived in Japan like a fish in water.
Tired of my unending passion for my element, Nishio-san would finally call to me, "Out of the lake! You'll dissolve!"
Too late. I had dissolved long before."
— Amélie Nothomb
"S'appeler Plectrude, c'était à double tranchant : soit on était laide et ce prénom soulignait votre laideur, soit on était belle et l'étrange sonorité de Plectrude démultipliait votre beauté."
— Amélie Nothomb
— Amélie Nothomb
"It’s true that someone will always say that good and evil don’t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real evil. Good is far less convincing than evil, but it’s because their chemical structures are different.
Like gold, good is never found in a pure state in nature: it therefore doesn’t seem impressive. It has the unfortunate tendency not to act; it prefers, passively, to be seen."
— Amélie Nothomb (Les Catilinaires)
Like gold, good is never found in a pure state in nature: it therefore doesn’t seem impressive. It has the unfortunate tendency not to act; it prefers, passively, to be seen."
— Amélie Nothomb (Les Catilinaires)
"Mais aujourd'hui, il ne s'agit pas d'honorer la beauté, ni même de procurer aux foules un spectacle agréable. Il s'agit de nous fracasser le crâne avec des menaces:"Vous avez intérêt à trouver ça à votre goût. Sinon, taisez-vous!" Le beau, qui devrait servir à faire communiquer les hommes dans l'admiration, sert à exclure. Face à un tel totalitarisme, au lieu de se révolter, les gens sont obéissants et enthousiastes. Ils applaudissent, ils en redemandent. Moi, j'appelle ça du masochisme."
— Amélie Nothomb (Attentat)
— Amélie Nothomb (Attentat)
