Quotes by Amelie Nothomb

About Amelie Nothomb:

Baroness Amélie Nothomb is a Belgian writer who writes in French.
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Para bailar, hay que merecerlo. Bailar sobre un escenario y delante de público constituye la mayor de las felicidades. A decir verdad, incluso sin público, incluso sin escenario, bailar es el colmo de la embriaguez. Una alegría tan profunda justif...

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Tra la vita - bocche di carpe che deglutiscono - e la morte - vegetali in lenta putrefazione - tu che cosa scegli? Che cosa ti dà meno voglia di vomitare?

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En effet: je mourais déjà. Je venais d'apprendre cette nouvelle horrible que tout humain apprend un jour ou l'autre: ce que tu aimes, tu vas le perdre. "Ce qui t'a été donné te sera repris." Face à la découverte de cette spoliation future, il ...

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Avevo appena scoperto l'orribile notizia che ogni essere umano scopre un giorno o l'altro: quello che ami, tu lo perderai.

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En el amor, veo una artimaña de mi instinto para no asesinar al otro[...]

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Nunca podré expresar el impacto que experimenté al abrir la puerta: era arrancar tu propia tumba para desembocar en el misterio.

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Il n'y a rien de gentil à laisser de faux espoirs. L'ambiguïté est la source de la douleur.

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What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best. The truth has been known for a long time, yet, over-aged adolescents that we are, we persist in speaking sentimental drives about the delicacy of flowers. We construct idiotic phrases like "S...

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Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by the tribulations of doubt, all that remains is a monster who is to art what a fanatic is to faith.

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There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the time of writing.

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Society conspires against her from early infancy. Her brain is steadily filled with plaster until it sets: ‘If you’re not married by the time you’re twenty-five, you’ll have good reason to be ashamed’; ‘if you laugh, you won’t look dign...

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Le Bien ne laisse aucune trace matérielle – et donc aucune trace, car vous savez ce que vaut la gratitude des hommes. Rien ne s’oublie aussi vite que le Bien. Pire: rien ne passe aussi inaperçu que le Bien, puisque le Bien véritable ne dit pas...

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Les choses à ne pas dire ne sont pas forcément les choses sales, au contraire. Il faut toujours raconter des saletés qu’on a en soi : c’est sain, c’est gai, c’est tonique. Non, les choses à ne pas dire sont d’un autre ordre – et ne vo...

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If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.

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If a writer manages to be fascinating about his own novels, then there are only two possibilities: either he is merely voicing out loud what he wrote in his book, and he is a parrot; or he is explaining interesting things that he didn't discuss in hi...

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I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.

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I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

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I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

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I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.

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When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

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Author Bio

  • NameAmelie Nothomb
  • DescriptionBelgian author
  • AliasesFabienne Nothomb; Fabienne Claire Nothomb; Amelie Nothomb
  • BornJuly 9, 1966
  • CountryBelgium
  • ProfessionWriter; Autobiographer
  • WorksAmélie Nothomb
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The Crown; Grand Prix Du Roman De L'Académie Française