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To the end, I will remain a c...

To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live, and what's more, we continue to export it.

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

In reality, the monotheist te...

In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

I am for the muscles. I would...

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.

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

People are suspicious of sing...

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.

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

Adolescence is not only an im...

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.

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

There is no point in asking m...

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

Without beauty a girl is unha...

Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, but it is as if she were invisible, no eyes follow her as she walks. People feel uncomfortable when they are with her. They find it easier to ignore her. A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal. Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

When a country is strong... i...

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

If life is an illusion it's a ...

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

I feel as if things are fallin...

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.

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

On Sunday morning I went out f...

On Sunday morning I went out for a while in the neighbourhood; I bought some raisin bread. The day was warm but a little sad, as Sundays often are in Paris, especially when one doesn't believe in God.

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

...beds last on an average muc...

...beds last on an average much longer than marriages...

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

I don't like this world. I def...

I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

I've lived so little that I te...

I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

An entire life spent reading w...

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me. ...

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

As a teenager, Michel believed...

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.

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

Life is painful and disappoint...

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.

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

Love binds, and it binds forev...

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

The world outside had its own ...

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

Michel Houellebecq 47 quotes

I tend to think that good and ...

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 47 quotes

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