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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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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.
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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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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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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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Polemical debates happen all the time in France.
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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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The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.
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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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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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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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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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The most stupid religion is Islam.
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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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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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Islam is a dangerous religion.
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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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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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The triumph of vegetation is total.
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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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