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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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Islam is a dangerous religion.
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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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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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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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If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.
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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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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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The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
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The most stupid religion is Islam.
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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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The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.
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