"Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which……" — Michel Houellebecq

"Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope."

— Michel Houellebecq

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65 Quotes by Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every…
To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of…
The most stupid religion is Islam.
Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.
Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at…
Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to…
Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak…
A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain…
I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for…
There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.
In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.
Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories;…

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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?… — Saint Augustine
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper,… — Hosea Ballou
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. — Julian Barnes
Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with… — Evan Bayh
Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I… — Adele
Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great… — Pope Benedict XVI
I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife. — Jeff Bridges
As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're… — Jeff Bridges
I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre. — Sarah Brightman
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper… — Jacob Bronowski
After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than… — Alan Alda
But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even… — Jeb Bush

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