Quotes by Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq

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.

Important

May

Speak

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

Anything Can Happen

Happens

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.

Father

Parent

Years

I hadn’t seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing happens and you have to pretend to be interested in your work. And, furthermore, that some people have a sex life and others don’t just because some are more attractive than others. I wanted to acknowledge that if people don’t have a sex life, it’s not for some moral reason, it’s just because they’re ugly. Once you’ve said it, it sounds obvious, but I wanted to say it.

Entering

People

Sex

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

Reading

Views

Writing

I think it’s more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

Difficult

Thinking

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

Notorious

People

Thinking

I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn’t exactly true that I’m a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn’t think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.

Real

Thinking

Trying

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.

Existence

Play

Roles

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

Hate

Reality

Tolerance

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Angel

Anything Can Happen

Battle

Beautiful

Believe

Betray

Causes

Children

Country

Crush

Curious

Cynical

Damage

Dangerous

Debate

Deceit

Desire

Difficult

Dog

Election

Entering

Europe

Evil

Existence

Eye

Father

Forever

France

Garden

Girl

Giving

Giving Up

Happens

Hate

Heart

Home

Humans

Ideas

Important

Instinct

Loyalty

Lying

May

Mean

Mistake

Morning

Notorious

Novel

Parent

People

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Quotes by Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq

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.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

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.

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

I think it’s more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

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

I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn’t exactly true that I’m a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn’t think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.

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.

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

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