"When we think about the present, we veer……" — Michel Houellebecq
"When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended."
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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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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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