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Амели Нотомб

Дата рождения:9. Июль 1966

Баронесса Амели́ Ното́мб , урождённая Фабье́нн-Клер Ното́мб — бельгийская франкоязычная писательница.

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Амели Нотомб5

бельгийская писательница

„Во все времена смиренное человечество покорно склонялось перед непонятными ему силами. Но, раньше, по крайней мере, ему виделось в этом нечто мистическое. Теперь у людей уже нет иллюзий. Они посвящают жизнь пустоте, за которой ничего нет.“

Амели Нотомб5

бельгийская писательница

„Убийство и сексуальный акт часто завершаются одним и тем же вопросом: что делать с телом? В случае сексуального акта можно просто уйти. Убийство же не допускает подобной вольности. Потому-то оно и связывает людей куда теснее.“

люди

Амели Нотомб5

бельгийская писательница

„Те, кто убегает, умирают потерянными в излишке пространства. Это парадокс бесконечности: предчувствуем свободу, которой там нет. Огромная тюрьма, из которой мы не выйдем никогда.“

свобода

Амели Нотомб5

бельгийская писательница

„Ты сделал кого-то счастливым. Нужно осмелиться не говорить. Нет ничего милого в том, что оставляет неверные надежды. Двусмысленность — источник боли и т. д.“

Амели Нотомб5

бельгийская писательница

„Те, кто убегают, умирают потерянными в излишке пространства. Это парадокс бесконечности: предчувствуем свободу, которой там нет. Огромная тюрьма, из которой мы не выйдем никогда.“

свобода

Amélie Nothomb44

Belgian francophone writer

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

Amélie Nothomb44

Belgian francophone writer

„Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.“ Métaphysique des tubes

Amélie Nothomb44

Belgian francophone writer

„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 Nothomb44

Belgian francophone writer

„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.“ Les Catilinaires

Amélie Nothomb44

Belgian francophone writer

„Honor sometimes means doing something very unwise. Behaving like an idiot is better than dishonor. To this day I blush for having chosen sensible restraint over common decency.“ Stupeur et tremblements

Amélie Nothomb44

Belgian francophone writer

„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".“ Le Sabotage amoureux

Amélie Nothomb44

Belgian francophone writer

„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.“ Stupeur et tremblements

Amélie Nothomb44

Belgian francophone writer

„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?“ Stupeur et tremblements

Amélie Nothomb44

Belgian francophone writer

„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.“ Life Form

Amélie Nothomb44

Belgian francophone writer

„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.“ Stupeur et tremblements

Amélie Nothomb44

Belgian francophone writer

„Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.“ Stupeur et tremblements

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