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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 disgustsme; 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
