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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.
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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I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.
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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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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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The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.
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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'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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