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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.
Michel Houellebecq
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Michel Houellebecq
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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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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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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Islam is a dangerous religion.
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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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The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.
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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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Rumor had it that he was homosexual in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.
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Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.
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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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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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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 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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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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