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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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…
More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. - Amelie Nothomb
More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.
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