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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.
Michel Houellebecq
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Michel Houellebecq
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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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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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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Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
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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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The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.
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If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.
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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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Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.
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In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.
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Polemical debates happen all the time in France.
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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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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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Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.
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Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.
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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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Rumor had it that he was homosexual in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.
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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.
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The most stupid religion is Islam.
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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 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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