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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.

Michel Houellebecq

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Michel Houellebecq
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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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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Islam is a dangerous religion.
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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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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 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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The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.
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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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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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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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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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In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.
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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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The triumph of vegetation is total.
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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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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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Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.
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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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Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
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