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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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Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
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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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In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.
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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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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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Islam is a dangerous religion.
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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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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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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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Active people don't change the world profoundly ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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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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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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The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
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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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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 world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.
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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 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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Rumor had it that he was homosexual in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.
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In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.
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