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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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The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.
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