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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.
Michel Houellebecq
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Michel Houellebecq
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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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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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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Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
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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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The triumph of vegetation is total.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rumor had it that he was homosexual in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.
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Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.
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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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In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.
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