"I'd say that the question whether love still……" — Michel Houellebecq
"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."
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65 Quotes by Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq has 65 quotes on this site.
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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…
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To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of…
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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…
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Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to…
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Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak…
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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…
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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…
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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;…
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More Dostoevsky Quotes
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Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a…
— John Banville
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Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.
— Albert Einstein
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So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.
— Georg Brandes
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He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were,…
— David Foster Wallace
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Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most.…
— Saul Alinsky
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If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation…
— Unknown Author
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The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most…
— Arthur Koestler
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long…
— Akira Kurosawa
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Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And…
— David Foster Wallace
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I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction…
— Richard Lewis
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