Failure Quote by Michel Houellebecq

“Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.”

Michel Houellebecq

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

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I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

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“In my life, I had known suffering, oppression, anxiety; I had never known boredom. I could see no objection to the endless, imbecile repetition…

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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…

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“... I spent whole afternoons at Bon Marché looking at pullovers, there was no sense in going on like that.”

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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…

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Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

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“He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.”

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“Olga was nice, Olga was nice and loving, Olga loved him, he repeated to himself with a growing sadness as he also realised that…

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“Regarde, c’est la mort, mon amour.”

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“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…

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“Life sometimes offers you a chance, he thought, but when you are too cowardly or too indecisive to seize it life takes the cards…

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No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

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Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle…

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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

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First action was a mistake. What about the second? third? fourth and fifth?...Mehn you are bad...

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God's love never fail :)

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Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve…

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“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)”

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I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad…

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Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

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