107 Quotes by Amélie Nothomb


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    Les choses à ne pas dire ne sont pas forcément les choses sales, au contraire. Il faut toujours raconter des saletés qu’on a en soi : c’est sain, c’est gai, c’est tonique. Non, les choses à ne pas dire sont d’un autre ordre – et ne vous attendez pas à ce que je vous l’explique, puisque ce sont précisément des choses à ne pas dire.

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    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".

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    My mind was not that of a conqueror, but that of a cow that spends its life chewing contentedly in the meadow of invoices, waiting for the train of eternal grace to pass by. How good it felt to exist without pride of ambition. To live in hibernation.

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    Tra la vita - bocche di carpe che deglutiscono - e la morte - vegetali in lenta putrefazione - tu che cosa scegli?Che cosa ti dà meno voglia di vomitare?

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    Cuando la existencia se presenta tan desmesuradamente exultante, esto se llama Nueva York. (...) ciudad que desplaza el corazón del pecho a la sien sobre la cual apuntaba permanentemente el revólver del placer: «Exulta o muérete».

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