Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges Brassens [French singer-songwriter]: 'Les imbciles heureux qui sont ns quelquepart.' I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.
Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou - Amelie Nothomb
Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou
- Amelie Nothomb
Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever. - Amelie Nothomb
Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.
When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more. - Amelie Nothomb
When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.
If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it. - Amelie Nothomb
If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.
Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write about my relation… - Amelie Nothomb
Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write about my relation…
It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me. - Amelie Nothomb
It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.
Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges Brassens [French singe… - Amelie Nothomb
Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges Brassens [French singe…
God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it. - Amelie Nothomb
God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.
The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image. - Amelie Nothomb
The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.
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