Amelie Nothomb

“Me tomó en sus brazos y ya no me dejó.”

— Amélie Nothomb

“La parole émancipe.”

— Amélie Nothomb

“El tiempo nos aplasta”

— Amélie Nothomb

“Eso es el heroísmo: a cambio de nada.”

— Amélie Nothomb

“I have a Ph.D. in masturbation.”

— Amélie Nothomb

“No sabemos nada de nosotros mismos”

— Amélie Nothomb

“Nada le falta a quien nada desea”

— Amélie Nothomb

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

— Amélie Nothomb

“Classicism never commits any errors of taste.”

— Amélie Nothomb

“In fond, oamenii nu citesc; daca citesc, nu pricep; daca pricep, uita.”

— Amélie Nothomb

The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.

— Amelie Nothomb

“El poder no me interesa. Reinar es mucho más hermoso”

— Amélie Nothomb

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

— Amelie Nothomb

“El hambre epistolar es un arte, y yo aspiro a alcanzar la excelencia.”

— Amélie Nothomb

“On lit pour découvrir une vision du monde.”

— Amélie Nothomb

I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry.…

— Amelie Nothomb

“Las teorías sirven para irritar a los filisteos, para seducir a los estetas y para que los demás se rían”

— Amélie Nothomb

God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.

— Amelie Nothomb

“Principio según el cual una persona que me había enseñado a atarme los cordones de los zapatos no podía decir cualquier cosa”

— Amélie Nothomb

“Tengo veintitrés años y todavía no he encontrado lo que buscaba. Por eso me gusta la vida. A los veintitrés años, es…

— Amélie Nothomb

Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you…

— Amelie Nothomb

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it…

— Amelie Nothomb

“You find the most outrageous deviants in the countries with the most authoritarian systems.”

— Amélie Nothomb

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious,…

— Amelie Nothomb

“All forms of beauty are poignant, Japanese beauty particularly so. That lily-white complexion, those mellow eyes, the inimitable shape of the nose,…

— Amélie Nothomb

“Every existence contains its primal trauma, an event dividing life into a before and an after, a trauma so great that even…

— Amélie Nothomb

“They went on to support their thesis by citing authors with esoteric names, whose works they themselves had not read, a fact…

— Amélie Nothomb

“I had always been alone and wouldn't have minded if it had been a matter of choice. It never had been. I…

— Amélie Nothomb

“Pitam se nemamo li svi mi u sebi svog neprijatelja i kako se protiv njega boriti?Za mene je borba protiv njega čin…

— Amelie Nothomb

“Honor sometimes means doing something very unwise. Behaving like an idiot is better than dishonor. To this day I blush for having…

— Amélie Nothomb

“Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not…

— Amélie Nothomb

“Look around you and look at yourself: the world is swarming with assassins, that is, people who allow themselves to forget those…

— 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…

— Amelie Nothomb

“The accountants who spent ten hours a day copying out numbers were, to my mind, victims sacrificed on the altar of a…

— Amélie Nothomb

“I don’t understand. She’s always been so friendly toward me.” “Yes, so long as your work consisted of updating calendars and photocopying…

— Amélie Nothomb

“As pessoas não sabem nada a respeito de metáforas. É uma palavra que vende bem, porque tem boa aparência. "Metáfora": o último…

— Amélie Nothomb

“What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best. The truth has been known for a long time, yet,…

— Amélie Nothomb

“I glanced at the contents of what I was photocopying. They were the rules of the golf club of which Mister Saito…

— Amélie Nothomb

“Fubuki, wouldn’t it be a thousand times better to stay unmarried than tie yourself down with some creep? What would you do…

— Amélie Nothomb

“There is only one key to knowledge, and that is desire.”

— Amélie Nothomb