Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Youth, beauty, strength: the criteria for physical love are exactly the same as those of Nazism.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
You know, you don't have to have permanent opinions. You can think, every morning, 'I love the world' and go to bed… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“What the boy felt was something pure, something gentle, something that predates sex or sensual fulfillment. It was the simple desire to… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, now that I… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Historically, such human beings have existed. Human beings who have worked - worked hard - all their lives with no other motive… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day;… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“My life, my life, my very old one My first badly healed desire, My first crippled love, You had to return. It… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Olga was nice, Olga was nice and loving, Olga loved him, he repeated to himself with a growing sadness as he also… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“No subject is more touched on than love, in the human life stories as well as in the literary corpus they have… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“In my life, I had known suffering, oppression, anxiety; I had never known boredom. I could see no objection to the endless, imbecile repetition… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
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… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“... I spent whole afternoons at Bon Marché looking at pullovers, there was no sense in going on like that.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Olga was nice, Olga was nice and loving, Olga loved him, he repeated to himself with a growing sadness as he also realised that… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“The problem is, it's just not enough to live according to the rules. Sure, you manage to live according to the rules. Sometimes it's… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Life sometimes offers you a chance, he thought, but when you are too cowardly or too indecisive to seize it life takes the cards… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
