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If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.
Michel Houellebecq
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Michel Houellebecq
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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More quotes by Michel Houellebecq
Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of minor interest. Thus it is possible to imagine a depressed lover, while the idea of a depressed patriot seems frankly inconceivable.
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I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.
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Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.
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Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.
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The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.
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The most stupid religion is Islam.
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I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.
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Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.
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In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.
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Rumor had it that he was homosexual in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.
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I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.
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I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.
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The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
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I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.
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Active people don't change the world profoundly ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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Islam is a dangerous religion.
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Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil it is also another word for deceit.
Michel Houellebecq
People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.
Michel Houellebecq
To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.
Michel Houellebecq
In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.
Michel Houellebecq
