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Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.
Michel Houellebecq
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Michel Houellebecq
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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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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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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