Amélie Nothomb's quotes (sethmessenger.fr - Some short news to get away from it all).

#25443
I admire the kindness that originated the kindness or love.

Amélie Nothomb
(Hygiène de l'assassin)

#25444
Charlie Hebdo is the less consensual newspaper of the universe and the least of the paradoxes is not to generate more consensus now supports.

Amélie Nothomb
(le Monde des Livres, 16 janvier 2015)

#25445
The France is this magical country where the most common of the inns can serve you anytime a great champagne at an ideal temperature.

Amélie Nothomb
(Pétronille)

#25446
We don't know anything about itself. Believed to get used to being self, it's the opposite. As the years pass and less we understand who is this person on behalf of whom it is said and done.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25447
If you want to know the dregs of human feelings, take a look at the feelings that nurture women to other women: you frissonnerez horror of hypocrisy, jealousy, wickedness, baseness.

Amélie Nothomb
(Hygiène de l'assassin)

#25448
The good leaves no physical trace - and thus no record, because you know what's worth the gratitude of men. Nothing is forgotten as soon as good.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25449
The books, too, are neighbours - neighbors of dream, who come to you only when you call them, and who leave as soon as you no longer want to see them.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25450
The fools think to share their wonders with the multitude, which is the surest way to lose his loot, and especially to see him turn into a vulgar thing.

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25451
The true adjective, like the number zero, is an essential expression of emptiness.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25452
No human reality expresses both the idea of fate as the unfortunate words and their implacable consequences.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25453
The mistake is like alcohol: it is very quickly aware went too far, but rather than having the wisdom to stop to limit the damage, a kind of rage, whose origin is foreign to drunkenness requires to keep.

Amélie Nothomb
(Le Sabotage amoureux)

#25454
The beautiful can last forever: he is his own trail. We're talking to him and those who have served.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25455
There is nothing that a human being to do only once. If a human being doing something one day, is that it is in its nature. Each person spends his time to reproduce the same acts.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25456
Unlike the novel, the song tirelessly seeks the key to a riddle by the melody.

Amélie Nothomb
(L’Express - 13 Juin 2002)

#25457
You can miss her life because of a single word.

Amélie Nothomb
(Biographie de la faim)

#25458
The lack of hunger is a drama on which no one has addressed.

Amélie Nothomb
(Biographie de la faim)

#25459
We are never so happy as when we found the way to get lost.

Amélie Nothomb
(Journal d’hirondelle)

#25460
The literature is absolutely not a democracy and fortunately!

Amélie Nothomb
(Evene.fr - Novembre 2006)

#25461
What is the difference between the eyes that have a look and eyes that do not have? This difference has a name: that's life.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25462
The lover is a complex which is also trying to make them happy.

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25463
Like gold, good is never meet in the pure State in nature: it is normal to not find impressive. He has a habit of doing nothing; he prefers to show.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25464
The beautiful and the good are governed by opposing laws: beauty is even more beautiful to talk about him, good is all less well what this is about.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25465
For most people, love is a detail of the existence, in the same way as sport, holidays, shows. Love's interest to be practical, to be consistent with the life that you chose.

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25466
Being judged on his intellect is also unfair to be judged on its beauty. The one and the other are 65%, innate qualities. They are therefore equal criteria in iniquity.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25467
When a woman destroyed the life of another, she considers this feat as supreme proof of his spirituality. "I care trouble, so I have a soul," she reasons.

Amélie Nothomb
(Hygiène de l'assassin)

#25468
The proportion of 100% are excluded at all ever scientific terminology.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25469
Evil is like a gas: it is not easy to see, but it is traceable to the smell. It is often stagnant, divided into stifling tablecloth.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25470
The force of inertia, it is the power of the larval.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25471
Nothing not unnoticed as well, since the true good does not say his name - he says, it ceases to be good, it becomes propaganda.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25472
In mathematics, more by more do more, while the word Yes multiplied by two is always equivalent to a denial.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25473
Talk is also creator than destroyer.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25474
An intellectual: that is a being who is passionately that we contradict.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Combustibles)

#25475
Claim to being exhaustive as to the potential of the future, it is a Summit in the history of the folly.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25476
It's funny that people need to blame others for ruining their lives. While they succeed so well themselves, without the help of anyone.

Amélie Nothomb
(Cosmétique de l’ennemi)

#25477
The planet is full of criminals who flee their punishment.

Amélie Nothomb
(Cosmétique de l’ennemi)

#25478
The risk is the same life. We can't risk his life. And if it will not, we do not live.

Amélie Nothomb
(Cosmétique de l’ennemi)

#25479
I judge the acts in terms of the enjoyment they give. Voluptuous Ecstasy is the sovereign purpose of existence.

Amélie Nothomb
(Cosmétique de l’ennemi)

#25480
The spirit has incomprehensible defense systems: called for help, and instead to bring relief, he injects that beautiful images.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les catilinaires)

#25481
We are commanded to be young and beautiful, and as soon as he comes to fall in love, it is advisable to not take into account such details.

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25482
The memory has the same power as the writing.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25483
On Earth, nobody is indispensable, except the enemy.

Amélie Nothomb
(Le Sabotage amoureux)

#25484
All desire is Memorial. All loved is the reincarnation of a deceased unquenched.

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25485
Ugliness, it's reassuring: there is no challenge, simply surrendering to his bad luck of this gargle, it is so comfortable. Beauty is a promise: you have to hold it, to be in the height.

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25486
Oblivion is a giant ocean on which sailed only one ship, which is the memory.

Amélie Nothomb
(Hygiène de l'assassin)

#25487
The North-South axis, it is the wealth-poverty axis. The East-West axis is less fundamental: it opposed two cultures, two philosophies. The dialogue seems possible and confrontation is spicy. The North-South axis nails all the gorges.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25488
Ugliness, it is spread out, promised to last.

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25489
Is true what is beautiful. The rest is invention.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25490
The wisdom of others never served anything. When happens the cyclone - the war, injustice, love, disease, the neighbour - we're always alone, all alone, it was born and it is an orphan.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25491
Deal with a talker is a test, of course. But what about one that invades you to impose his silence?

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25492
The moral sense disappears beyond 180 IQ.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25493
Naming things, it's remove them their danger.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25494
Silence is the best proof of love.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25495
From all eternity, beauty is more profitable than good.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25496
These are the small minds who are the most harmful.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25497
It is that creative intelligence.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25498
The only bad choice is no choice.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25499
These are always butters who criticize the physics of the other butters.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25500
The only excuse for the war, it's that it corresponds to a madness of the human species.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25501
The war is in human nature.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Combustibles)

#25502
People are the same in reading than in life: selfish, greedy for pleasure and uneducable.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Combustibles)

#25503
We have the sense of eternity or is not: it is innate.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Combustibles)

#25504
Every human being has the right to be in contradiction with him even.

Amélie Nothomb
(Source inconnue)

#25505
That our life has no artistic value, it is very possible. The more reason that the literature has one.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Combustibles)

#25506
Love is not the specialty of humans.

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25507
When a people refuse progress easy to implement when a vehicle driven by ten men rest on the spot, when a child is avachit in front of the television for hours, we discover, dumbfounded, the terrible grip of the motionless.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25508
The pleasure is a wonder that teaches me that I am me.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25509
Life is what you see: the membrane of tripe, a bottomless hole that needs to be filled. Life is this hose who swallows and remains empty.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25510
Friends are the best potential traitors.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25511
When someone's destiny is fulfilled, you smile.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25512
Everyone has an enemy inside.

Amélie Nothomb
(Libération - 9 Septembre 1997)

#25513
The voluptuous student, regardless of the source.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25514
Wisdom is never on the side of one who is speaking.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25515
Person is the victim of no one.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25516
It lacks nothing when we do nothing.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25517
Poorly practiced goodness is not goodness.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25518
The ceremony has always served to lead in the brain. Without the bombast of the rites, would force for nothing.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25519
It is houses who give orders. They are more compelling than fate: at first glance it is defeated. We'll have to live there.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25520
True generosity is that nobody can understand. As soon as the goodness comes in the area of the admirable, is no longer the goodness.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25521
What should be the body? An object of pure pleasure and pure jubilation.

Amélie Nothomb
(Le Sabotage amoureux)

#25522
Living means refuse.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25523
Our unique individual specificity lies in this: tell me what turns you off and I'll tell you who you are.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25524
The word frees.

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25525
As dreams are cruel, which suggest wonders for better deprive us!

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25526
What was given to you will be returned to you: your whole life will be punctuated by grief.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25527
It is striking how much ugliness is always the highest.

Amélie Nothomb
(Le Sabotage amoureux)

#25528
Characteristic of the great books is that each player is the author.

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25529
Love: it's a disease that makes it bad. As soon as you really love someone, we can't help but harm, even and especially if one wants to make him happy.

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25530
To admire people who can be happy.

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25531
Silence is more raucous than anything.

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25532
A what would serve the dead, if not to love the living more?

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25533
The best reason for suicide, it is the fear of death.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25534
The sound is often more important than the meaning.

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25535
Can happen to a beautiful girl to fall on a monster?

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25536
What good to kill unborn if not for the pleasure?

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25537
The theories are used to irritate the Philistines, to seduce the aesthetes and make others laugh.

Amélie Nothomb
(Le Sabotage amoureux)

#25538
Without an enemy, the human being is a poor thing. His life is a test, a dejection of nothingness and boredom.

Amélie Nothomb
(Le Sabotage amoureux)

#25539
Life begins there where begins the look.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25540
There is growth and then there's decrepitude; There is nothing between the two. The peak, it doesn't exist.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25541
Why is it impossible to make someone well without him to hurt? Why is it impossible to love someone without destroying it?

Amélie Nothomb
(Mercure)

#25542
Adults have access to a thousand kinds of pleasures, but for the enfancons, there is greed that can open the doors of the relish.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25543
If you can write the wonders of your paradise in the matter of your brain, you Fraser in your head otherwise their miraculous reality, at least their power.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des Tubes)

#25544
The universe exists so that I exist.

Amélie Nothomb
(Le Sabotage amoureux)

#25545
What is than a flower? A giant sex who got on his thirty-one.

Amélie Nothomb
(Le Sabotage amoureux)

#25546
What good to remember what is not related to pleasure? The memory is one of the most essential allies of lust.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25547
We make fun of kids who justify their bad shots by this groan: it was he who started! However, no adult conflict finds its genesis elsewhere.

Amélie Nothomb
(Le Sabotage amoureux)

#25548
Death, like a terrier, like a room with the curtains closed, like loneliness, is both horrible and tempting: we feel that we could be good.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25549
When I grow up, I'll think when I was a kid.

Amélie Nothomb
(Le Sabotage amoureux)

#25550
Only grammarians are naïve enough to think that the exception proves the rule.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25551
It's much more entertaining to be boring to be interesting.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25552
No need of interest to lie. Fun enough.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25553
There will always be in the crowd a jerk who, under the pretext that he doesn't understand, decrees that there is nothing to understand.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25554
You read to discover a vision of the world.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Combustibles)

#25555
Doubt and fear are officers of major initiatives.

Amélie Nothomb
(Hygiène de l'assassin)

#25556
Forced happiness is a nightmare.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Catilinaires)

#25557
A book is a detonator used to react people.

Amélie Nothomb
(Les Combustibles)

#25558
The human mind suffers from a fundamental intellectual deficiency: so that he understands the value of a thing, it must deprive him of this thing.

Amélie Nothomb
(Attentat)

#25559
Between what took place and what has not taken place, there is no more difference between more zero and less than zero.

Amélie Nothomb
(Péplum)

#25560
The Parisian is a legend, so it exists more than other women, and this for all eternity.

Amélie Nothomb
(Vogue - Août 2000)

#25561
The look is a choice. One who looks decided to settle on such thing and thus necessarily exclude his attention the rest of his field of vision. It's what the look, that is the essence of life, first is a refusal.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25562
We invented anything better than stupidity to think smart.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25563
The only way to stop suffering, is having more of a vacuum in the head.

Amélie Nothomb
(Le Sabotage amoureux)

#25564
The time is an invention of the movement. Those who don't move see time.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

#25565
We don't even own his own body.

Amélie Nothomb
(Métaphysique des tubes)

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