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Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.
Michel Houellebecq
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Michel Houellebecq
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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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 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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Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.
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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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In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.
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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 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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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 it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.
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Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.
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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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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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