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The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.
Michel Houellebecq
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Michel Houellebecq
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.
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I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip of a fury, needing to act, yet can do nothing about it because any attempt seems doomed in advance. Failure, everywhere failure. Only suicide hovers above me, gleaming and inaccessible.
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Islam is a dangerous religion.
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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.
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A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.
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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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The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.
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As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.
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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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The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
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In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.
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In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.
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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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Polemical debates happen all the time in France.
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Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.
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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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