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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.
Michel Houellebecq
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Michel Houellebecq
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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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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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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