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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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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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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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Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.
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Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.
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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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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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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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The triumph of vegetation is total.
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Polemical debates happen all the time in France.
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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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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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Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of minor interest. Thus it is possible to imagine a depressed lover, while the idea of a depressed patriot seems frankly inconceivable.
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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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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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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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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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The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
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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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A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.
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The most stupid religion is Islam.
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