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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. — Michel Houellebecq

Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit. All that exists is a magnificent interweaving, vast and reciprocal. — Michel Houellebecq

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life. — Michel Houellebecq

I wondered what could interest me, now that I was finished with love. — Michel Houellebecq

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

Should I just die? The decision struck me as premature. — Michel Houellebecq

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely. — Michel Houellebecq

If you control the children, you control the future. — Michel Houellebecq

There is no endless silence of infinite space, for in reality there is no space, no silence and no void. — Michel Houellebecq

No doubt the Romans had felt that theirs was an eternal civilization, right up to the moment their empire fell apart. Were they suicides, too? — Michel Houellebecq

He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief. — Michel Houellebecq

The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know, — Michel Houellebecq

The transition to a salaried workforce had doomed the nuclear family and led to the complete atomization of society, — Michel Houellebecq

Living together aklone is hell between consenting adults. — Michel Houellebecq

On beach holidays, as perhaps in life more generally, the only truly enjoyable time of the day is breakfast. — Michel Houellebecq

I was about as political as a bath towel. — Michel Houellebecq

Men live alongside one another like cattle; it is a miracle if once in a while they manage to share a bottle of booze. — Michel Houellebecq

Life begins at fifty, that's true, inasmuch as it ends at forty. — Michel Houellebecq

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing. — Michel Houellebecq

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information. — Michel Houellebecq

A whore can always turn herself into a good little cook over time. — Michel Houellebecq

Using a big word like 'plagiarism' ... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism. — Michel Houellebecq

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

It's hard to understand other people, to know what's hidden in their hearts, and without the assistance of alcohol it might never be done at all. — Michel Houellebecq

The feeling of closeness when we talked on the phone was too violent, and the void that came afterward too cruel. — Michel Houellebecq

the tables were taken by law students talking about rave parties or 'junior associates', in other words, those things which interest law students — Michel Houellebecq

But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing. — Michel Houellebecq

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

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

Islam is a dangerous religion. — Michel Houellebecq

I was as political as a bath towel — Michel Houellebecq

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere. — Michel Houellebecq

What would it be like when I was fifty, sixty, older? I'd be no more than a jumble of organs in slow decomposition. — Michel Houellebecq

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he'd met on the internet. — Michel Houellebecq

an intellectual didn't have to be responsible. That wasn't his job. In — Michel Houellebecq

Beds last on an average much longer than marriages ... — Michel Houellebecq

There is no Israel for me. — Michel Houellebecq

All I knew was that once again I found myself alone, with even less desire to live and nothing to look forward to but aggravations. — Michel Houellebecq

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent. — Michel Houellebecq

Polemical debates happen all the time in France. — Michel Houellebecq

Intimacy isn't something men talk about. — Michel Houellebecq

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

All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient Greeks. — Michel Houellebecq

These immigrants held out the hope of a new golden age for the old continent. — Michel Houellebecq

the word humanism made me want to vomit, — Michel Houellebecq

Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity. — Michel Houellebecq

Were they ready to give up everything for their country? I felt ready to give up everything, not really for my country, but in general. — Michel Houellebecq

The Sushi Warehouse in Roissy 2E offered an exceptional range of Norwegian mineral waters. — Michel Houellebecq

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

It was amazing, even, to think that the only thing left to people in their despair was reading. — Michel Houellebecq

His masterpiece was a dead end - but isn't that true of any masterpiece? — Michel Houellebecq

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. — Michel Houellebecq

My novels are all ideas. — Michel Houellebecq

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

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. — Michel Houellebecq

People cannot live without God; life becomes unbearable. — Michel Houellebecq

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. — Michel Houellebecq

For men, love is nothing more than gratitude for the gift of pleasure, — Michel Houellebecq

For the French, an intellectual didn't have to be responsible. That wasn't his job. — Michel Houellebecq

When you got right down to it, my dick was the one organ that hadn't presented itself to my consciousness through pain, — Michel Houellebecq

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude. — Michel Houellebecq

The only conclusion he could draw was that without points of reference, a man melts away. — Michel Houellebecq

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

I didn't even want to fuck her, or maybe I kind of wanted to fuck her but I also kind of wanted to die, I couldn't really tell. — Michel Houellebecq

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little. — Michel Houellebecq

In that time he had managed to write books that made me consider him a friend more than a hundred years later. — Michel Houellebecq

The sun shone on the meadows and woods like a trusted employee. — Michel Houellebecq

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks. — Michel Houellebecq

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

In the presence of a reader of Teilhard De Chardin I feel disarmed, nonplussed, ready to break down in tears. — Michel Houellebecq

Happy are those who are satisfied by life, who amuse themselves, who are content. — Michel Houellebecq

Much, maybe too much, has been written about literature. — Michel Houellebecq

That old queer Nietzsche had it right: Christianity was, at the end of the day, a feminine religion. — Michel Houellebecq

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

The mere will to live was clearly no match for the pains and aggravations that punctuate the life of the average Western man. — Michel Houellebecq

Even in our deepest, most lasting friendships, we never speak as openly as when we face a blank page and address a reader we do not know. — Michel Houellebecq

Yet the special thing about literature, the major art form of a Western civilization now ending before our very eyes, is not hard to define. — Michel Houellebecq

As I got older, I also found myself agreeing more with Nietzsche, as is no doubt inevitable once your plumbing starts to fail. — Michel Houellebecq

It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable. — Michel Houellebecq

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. — Michel Houellebecq

What's amazing about Bayrou, what makes him irreplaceable," Tanneur enthused, "is that he's an utter moron. — Michel Houellebecq

While I was waiting to die, I still had the Journal of Nineteenth-Century Studies. — Michel Houellebecq

The greater the proportion of pure morality in a particular system, the happier and more enduring the society. — Michel Houellebecq

We turn our eyes to the heavens, and the heavens are empty. — Michel Houellebecq

To love a book is, above all, to love its author: we want to meet him again, we want to spend our days with him. — Michel Houellebecq

Through all the years of my sad youth Huysmans remained a companion, a faithful friend; never once did I doubt him, — Michel Houellebecq

The Enlightened One, if he had meditated on it, would not necessarily have rejected a technical solution. — Michel Houellebecq

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope. — Michel Houellebecq

The beach at Meschers was crawling with wankers in shorts and bimbos in thongs. It was reassuring. — Michel Houellebecq

The triumph of vegetation is total. — Michel Houellebecq

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic. — Michel Houellebecq

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America. — Michel Houellebecq

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

Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult. — Michel Houellebecq

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. — Michel Houellebecq

The most stupid religion is Islam. — Michel Houellebecq

It's perfectly possible to live without expecting anything of life; in fact, it's the most common way. — Michel Houellebecq

The truth is that men were simply giving up the ghost. — Michel Houellebecq

Youth, beauty, strenght: the criteria for physical lova are exactly the same as those of Nazism. — Michel Houellebecq

A woman is human, obviously, but she represents a slightly different kind of humanity. — Michel Houellebecq