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Амели Нотомб
Дата рождения: 9. Июль 1966
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Баронесса Амели́ Ното́мб , урождённая Фабье́нн-Клер Ното́мб — бельгийская франкоязычная писательница.
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„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
„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 "So-and-so is in the flower of his youth", which is as absurd as saying "in the vagina of his youth".“
— Amélie Nothomb, Le Sabotage amoureux
„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’; ‘if your face betrays your feelings, you’ll look coarse’; ‘if you mention the existence of a single body hair, you’re repulsive’; ‘if a boy kisses you on the cheek in public, you’re a whore’; if you enjoy eating, you’re a pig’; ‘if you take pleasure in sleeping, you’re no better than a cow’; and so on.
These precepts would be merely anecdotal if they weren’t taken so much to heart.“
— Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements
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„I don’t understand. She’s always been so friendly toward me.”
“Yes, so long as your work consisted of updating calendars and photocopying golf club bylaws.”
“But there was no danger of my taking her place!”
“She was never afraid of that.”
“Then why denounce me? Why would it upset her if I went to work for you?”
“Miss Mori struggled for years to get the job she has now. She probably found it unbearable for you to get that sort of promotion after being with the company only ten weeks.”
“I can’t believe it. That’s just so … mean.”
“All I can say is that she suffered greatly during the first few years she was here.”
“So she wants me to suffer the same fate? It’s too pathetic. I must talk to her.”
“Do you really think that’s a good idea?”
“Of course. How else are we going to work things out if we don’t talk?”
“You just talked to Mister Omochi. Does it strike you that things have been worked out?“
— Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements
„The accountants who spent ten hours a day copying out numbers were, to my mind, victims sacrificed on the altar of a divinity wholly bereft of either greatness or mystery. These humble creatures were devoting their entire lives to a reality beyond their grasp. In days gone by they might have at least believed there was some purpose to their servitude. Now they no longer had any illusions. They were giving up their lives for nothing, and they knew it.
Everyone knows that Japan has the highest suicide rate of any country in the world. What surprised me was that suicides were not more common.“
— Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements
