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Michel Houellebecq has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others…
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To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to…
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The most stupid religion is Islam.
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Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.
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Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they…
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Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which…
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Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life…
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A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel,…
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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…
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There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.
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In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.
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Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any…
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Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said…
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My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an…
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Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving…
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I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I…
— Louis Begley
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Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly…
— Carlisle Floyd
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I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy…
— Peter Greenaway
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Polemical debates happen all the time in France.
— Michel Houellebecq
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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
— David Hume
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I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than…
— J M Coetzee
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Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style…
— Alain de Botton
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An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is…
— Cynthia Ozick
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