“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 dignified’… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share
God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it. — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“The nature of the epistolary genre was revealed to me: a form of writing devoted to another person. Novels, poems, and so on, were… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“I glanced at the contents of what I was photocopying. They were the rules of the golf club of which Mister Saito was a member. I started to laugh. The next minute I felt more like crying, thinking about all the innocent trees that my superior was wasting to chastise me. I imagined the forests of the Japan of my… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share
“Principio según el cual una persona que me había enseñado a atarme los cordones de los zapatos no podía decir cualquier cosa” — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“As she went on with her labour, she became aware that she had Schubert's Erl-King going around in her head. It wasn't the ideal music for the job. Normally, Pannonique programmed her brain to play symphonies that have her the energy indispensable for such physical labour-Saint-Saens, Dvorak-but now that heart-rending Lied stuck in her skull and sapped her strength.” — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share
It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.” — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image. — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
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… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share
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