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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.
Michel Houellebecq
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Michel Houellebecq
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.
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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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Rumor had it that he was homosexual in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.
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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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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 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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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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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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The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.
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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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Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.
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I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.
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Islam is a dangerous religion.
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Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.
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I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.
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On Sunday morning I went out for a while in the neighbourhood I bought some raisin bread. The day was warm but a little sad, as Sundays often are in Paris, especially when one doesn't believe in God.
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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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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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Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil it is also another word for deceit.
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