Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Amélie Nothomb
Born: July 9, 1966 (age 59)
Bio: Amélie Nothomb, pen name of Fabienne-Claire Nothomb born on 9 July 1966 in Etterbeek, Belgium, is a Belgian Francophone novel writer. Part of her childhood was spent in Asia.
Known for:
- The Life of Hunger (2004)
- Tokyo Fiancée (2007)
- Fear and Trembling (1998)
- Pétronille (2014)
- Hygiene and the Assassin (1992)







