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“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”

Michel Houellebecq book Platform

Source: Platform

“You get used to terrorist attacks. France will hold on. The French will hold on, without even needing a “sursaut national,” a national pushback reflex. They’ll hold on because there’s no other way, and because you get used to everything. No human force, not even fear, is stronger than habit.”

Michel Houellebecq

"The New York Times - The Opinion Pages", commentary about the November 2015 Paris attacks http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/opinion/how-frances-leaders-failed-its-people.html?_r=0 (21 November 2015)

“It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.”

Michel Houellebecq book Atomised

Source: The Elementary Particles

“To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.”

Michel Houellebecq book The Possibility of an Island

Source: The Possibility of an Island

“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 book Atomised

Source: The Elementary Particles

“It may well be impossible for people who have lived and prospered under a given social system to imagine the point of view of those who feel it offers them nothing, and who can contemplate its destruction without any particular dismay.”

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Source: Submission

Michel Houellebecq Quotes about life

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

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“Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.”

Michel Houellebecq

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

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

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“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

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

Michel Houellebecq Quotes about people

“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

Source: Submission

“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.”

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“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 book Atomised

Source: The Elementary Particles