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31 quotes by Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq (French: [miʃɛl wɛlbɛk]; born Michel Thomas; 26 February 1958) is a controversial and award-winning French author, filmmaker, and poet. Having written poetry and a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, he published his first novel, Whatever, in 1994. Atomised followed in 1998, and Platform in 2001. He published a book of poems "Le Sens de Combat" (published in English as "The Art of Struggle") in 1996....
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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 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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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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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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I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

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The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

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I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

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You know, you don't have to have permanent opinions. You can think, every morning, 'I love the world' and go to bed every night thinking... →

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Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad... →

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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... →

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I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

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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 that there is a sharp contrast for most people between life at university, where they meet lots of people, and the moment when they enter the... →

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