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Amélie Nothomb
Datum narození:9. červenec 1966
Amélie Nothombová je francouzsky píšící belgická spisovatelka.
Citáty Amélie Nothomb
„Mám-li milovat, potřebuji být volná.“
— Amélie Nothomb
Ani Eva, ani Adam
„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
