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1. "I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgustsme; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke." ~ Michel Houellebecq
2. "It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life." ~ Michel Houellebecq
3. "I hadn't seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing happens and you have to pretend to be interested in your work. And, furthermore, that some people have a sex life and others don't just because some are more attractive than others. I wanted to acknowledge that if people don't have a sex life, it's not for some moral reason, it's just because they're ugly. Once you've said it, it sounds obvious, but I wanted to say it." ~ Michel Houellebecq
4. "Il n'y a pas d'amour dans la liberté individuelle, dans l'indépendance, c'est tout simplement un mensonge, et l'un des plus grossiers qui puisse se concevoir; il n'y a d'amour que dans le désir d'anéantissement, de fusion, de disparition individuelle, dans une sorte comme on disait autrefois de sentiment océanique, dans quelque chose qui de toute façon était, au moins dans un futur proche, condamné." ~ Michel Houellebecq
5. "Quand on aime la vie, on ne lit pas." ~ Michel Houellebecq
6. "Lorsque la sexualité disparaît, c'est le corps de l'autre qui apparaît, dans sa présence vaguement hostile; ce sont les bruits, les mouvements, les odeurs; et la présence même de ce corps qu'on ne peut plus toucher, ni sanctifier par le contact, devient peu à peu une gêne; tout cela malheureusement, est connu. La disparition de la tendresse suit toujours de près celle de l'érotisme. Il n'y a pas de relation épurée, d'union supérieure des âmes, ni quoi que ce soit qui puisse y ressembler, ou même l'évoquer sur un mode allusif. Quand l'amour physique disparaît, tout disparaît; un agacement morne, sans profondeur, vient remplir la succession des jours." ~ Michel Houellebecq
7. "Let's put achimpanzee in a tiny cage fronted by concrete bars. The animal would go berserk,throw itself against the walls, rip out its hair, inflict cruel bites on itself, and in 73%of cases will actually end up killing itself. Let's now make a breach in one of thewalls, which we will place next to a bottomless precipice. Our friendly samplequadrumane will approach the edge, he'll look down, but remain at the edge forages, return there time and again, but generally he won't teeter over the brink; andin all events his nervous state will be radically assuaged." ~ Michel Houellebecq
8. "But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing." ~ Michel Houellebecq
9. "Un examen un tant soit peu exhaustif de l'humanité doit nécessairement prendre en compte ce type de phénomènes. De tels êtres humains, historiquement, ont existé.Des êtres humains qui travaillaient toute leur vie, et qui travaillaient dur, uniquement par dévouement et par amour; qui donnaient littéralement leur vie aux autres dans un esprit de dévouement et d'amour; qui n'avaient cependant nullement l'impression de se sacrifier; qui n'envisageaient en réalité d'autre manière de vivre que de donner leur vie aux autres dans un esprit de dévouement et d'amour.En pratique, ces êtres humains étaient généralement des femmes." ~ Michel Houellebecq
10. "Adolescent, Michel croyait que la souffrance donnait à l'homme une dignité supplémentaire. Il devait maintenant en convenir: il s'était trompé. Ce qui donnait à l'homme une dignité supplémentaire, c'était la télévision." ~ Michel Houellebecq
11. "Está lección autobiográfica no lo es en realidad: sea como sea, no tengo otra salida. Sino escribo lo que he visto sufriría igual; y quizás un poco más. Un poco solamente, insisto en esto. La escritura no alivia apenas. Describe, delimita. Introduce una sombra de coherencia,una idea de realismo. Uno sigue chapoteando en una niebla sangrienta, pero hay algunos puntos de referencia. El caos se queda a unos pocos metros. Pobre éxito, en realidad." ~ Michel Houellebecq
12. "...hän on vain kuolevainen, aivan kuten me kaikki olemme tähän saakka olleet, tilapäinen molekyylien yhdistelmä. Sanokaamme, että tässä tapauksessa yhdistelmä oli viehättävä, mutta se ei ole sen pysyvämpi kuin huurrekuvio, joka katoaa ilman lämmetessä..." ~ Michel Houellebecq
13. "Este o senzatie stranie: sa simti cum viata ti se schimba total; e suficient sa stai pe loc, sa nu faci nimic, sa percepi senzatia de schimbare." ~ Michel Houellebecq
14. "Cand iubirea a disparut, viata devine oarecum conventionala si silnica; pastrezi o forma umana, comportamentele obisnuite, un soi de structura, dar sufletul, cum se spune, e gol." ~ Michel Houellebecq
15. "Spre deosebire de alte popoare asiatice, tailandezii nu cred în fantome si manifesta putin interes pentru soarta cadavrelor. Cele mai multe sunt duse direct la groapa comuna. Cum nu voi lasa instructiuni precise, la fel se va-ntâmpla si cu mine. Cineva, foarte departe, în Franta, va completa un act de deces, va bifa o casuta într-un formular de stare civila. Câtiva vânzatori ambulanti obisnuiti sa ma vada prin cartier vor clatina din cap. Camera mea va fi închiriata altui calator. Apoi ma vor uita, ma vor uita repede..." ~ Michel Houellebecq
16. "Al considerar el pasado siempre se tiene la impresión -probablemente falsa- de un cierto determinismo" ~ Michel Houellebecq
17. "A cockroach appeared just as I was about to get into the bath. It was just the right time for a cockroach to make an appearance in my life; couldn't have been better. It scuttled quickly across the porcelain, the little bugger; I looked around for a slipper, but actually I knew my chances of squashing him were small. What was the point in trying? And what good was Oon, in spite of her marvellously elastic vagina? We were already doomed. Cockroaches copulate gracelessly, with no apparent pleasure; but they also do it repeatedly and their genetic mutations are rapid and efficient. There is absolutely nothing we can do about cockroaches." ~ Michel Houellebecq
18. "Jean-Yves looked up at his mother's face, her greying chignon, her harsh features: it was difficult to feel a rush of tenderness, of affection for this woman; as far back as he could remember, she had never really been one for hugs; it was equally difficult to imagine her in the role of a sensual lover, a slut. He suddenly realised that his father must have been bored shitless his whole life. He felt terribly shocked by this, his hands tensed on the edge of the table: this time it was irreparable, it was definitive. In despair, he tried to recall a moment when he had seen his father beaming, happy, genuinely glad to be alive." ~ Michel Houellebecq
19. "Qu'est-ce qu'un chien, sinon une machine à aimer ? On lui présente un être humain, en lui donnant pour mission de l'aimer - et aussi disgracieux, pervers, déformé ou stupide soit-il, le chien l'aime. Cette caractéristique était si surprenante, si frappante pour les humains de l'ancienne race que la plupart - tous les témoignages concordent - en venaient à aimer leur chien en retour. le chien était donc une machine à aimer à effet d'entraînement - dont l'efficacité, cependant, restait limitée aux chiens, et ne s'étendait jamais aux autres hommes. (La possibilité d'une île, Danie l25,2)" ~ Michel Houellebecq
20. "An entire life spentreading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age ofseven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems tome. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best.Such a life has not been granted me. ..." ~ Michel Houellebecq
21. "...beds last on an average much longer than marriages..." ~ Michel Houellebecq
22. "Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit. All that exists is a magnificent interweaving, vast and reciprocal." ~ Michel Houellebecq
23. "There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind." ~ Michel Houellebecq
24. "He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief." ~ Michel Houellebecq
25. "You too, you took an interest in the world. That was long ago. I want you to cast your mind back to then. The domain of the rules was no longer enough for you; you were unable to love any longer in the domain of the rules; so you had to enter into the domain of the struggle. I ask you to go back to that precise moment. It was long ago, no? Cast your mind back: the water was cold. You are far from the edge, now. Oh yes! How far from the edge you are! You long believed in the existence of another shore; such is no longer the case. You go on swimming, though, and every movement you make brings you closer to drowning. You are suffocating, your lungs are on fire. The water seems colder and colder to you, more and more galling. You aren't that young anymore. Now you are going to die. Don't worry. I am here. I won't let you sink. Go on with your reading." ~ Michel Houellebecq
26. "Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minutes ; c'est différent." ~ Michel Houellebecq
27. "L'avantage de tenir un discours moral, c'est que ce type de propos a été soumis à une censure si forte, et depuis tant d'années, qu'il provoque un effet d'incongruité et attire aussitôt l'attention de l'interlocuteur ; l'inconvénient, c'est que celui-ci ne parvient jamais à vous prendre tout à fait au sérieux. (La possibilité d'une île, Daniel 1,15)" ~ Michel Houellebecq
28. "De plus en plus, les théories qui tentaient d'expliquer les phénomènes économiques, de prévoir leurs évolutions, lui apparaissaient a peu prés également inconsistantes, hasardeuses, elle était de plus en plus tentée de les assimiler a du charlatanisme pur et simple; il était même surprenant, se disait-elle parfois, qu'on attribue un prix Nobel d'économie, comme si cette discipline pouvait se prévaloir du même sérieux méthodologique, de la même rigueur intellectuelle que la chimie, ou que la physique." ~ Michel Houellebecq
29. "Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic." ~ Michel Houellebecq
30. "Oferecer o corpo como objeto agradavável, dar gratuitamente prazer: é isso o que os ocidentais não sabem mais fazer. Perderam totalmente o senso da doação. Podem até se esforçar, mas não conseguem mais sentir o sexo como algo natural. Não apenas têm vergonha dos próprios corpos, que não estão à altura dos que vemos nos filmes pornôs, mas também, pelo mesmo motivo, não sentem nenhuma atração pelo corpo do outro. É impossivel fazer amor sem um certo abandono, sem a aceitação ao mesmo tempo temporária de um certo estado de dependência e fraqueza. A exaltação sentimental e a obsessão sexual têm a mesma origem, as duas nascem de um certo esquecimento de si mesmo; neste terreno, a gente não pode se realizar sem se perder. As pessoas se tornam frias, racionais, extremamente conscientes da sua existência individual e dos seus direitos (...) realmente não são as condições ideais para fazer amor"." ~ Michel Houellebecq
31. "Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism." ~ Michel Houellebecq
32. "Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau." ~ Michel Houellebecq
33. "In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little." ~ Michel Houellebecq
34. "Islam is a dangerous religion." ~ Michel Houellebecq
35. "My novels are all ideas." ~ Michel Houellebecq
36. "Tout est kitsch, si l'on veut. La musique dans son ensemble est kitsch; l'art est kitsch; la littérature elle-même est kitsch. Toute émotion est kitsch, pratiquement par définition; mais toute réflexion aussi, et même dans un sens toute action. La seule chose qui ne soit absolument pas kitsch, c'est le néant." ~ Michel Houellebecq
37. "La liberté, à titre personnel, j'étais plutôt contre; il est amusant de constater que ce sont toujours les adversaires de la liberté qui se trouvent, à un moment ou à un autre, en avoir le plus besoin." ~ Michel Houellebecq
38. "La pure morale est unique et universelle. Elle ne subit aucune altération au cours du temps, non plus qu'aucune adjonction. Elle ne dépend d'aucun facteur historique, économique, sociologique ou culturel ; elle ne dépend absolument de rien du tout. Non déterminée, elle détermine. Non conditionnée, elle conditionne. En d'autres termes, c'est un absolu." ~ Michel Houellebecq
39. "- Vous vous intéressez aux vins?- Ça me donne une contenance; ça fait français. Et puis il faut s'intéresser à quelque chose, dans la vie, je trouve que ça aide." ~ Michel Houellebecq
40. "As soon as the genome had been cmpletely decoded (which would be in a matter of months) humanity would have complete control of its evolution; when that happened sexuality would be seen for what it really was: a useless, dangerous, and regressive function." ~ Michel Houellebecq
41. "O kadar az yasadim ki sanki hiç ölmeyecekmisim gibi düsünme egilimindeyim; insan hayatinin bu kadarcik bir seye indirgenmesi gerçek olamazmis gibi geliyor bana; elinizde olmadan, er ya da geç bir sey olacak diye hayal ediyorsunuz. Büyük hata. Bir hayat pekâlâ da bos ve kisa olabilir. Günler ne bir iz ne bir ani birakmadan sefil bir sekilde akip gider; ve sonra bir anda duruverir." ~ Michel Houellebecq
42. "Se pare ca alte fiinte umane aparent asemanatoare cu mine nu simt nicio emotie în fata unui trup de femeie, ceea ce mie îmi provoca si înca îmi provoaca uneori transe irepresibile. În cele mai multe împrejurari ale vietii mele am fost aproape la fel de liber ca un aspirator." ~ Michel Houellebecq
43. "Si le nourrisson humain, seul de tout le règne animal, manifeste immédiatement sa présence au monde par des hurlements de souffrance incessants, c'est bien entendu qu'il souffre de manière intolérable. {...) À tout observateur impartial en tout cas il apparaît que l'individu humain ne peut pas être heureux, qu'il n'est en aucune manière conçu pour le bonheur, et que sa seule destinée possible est de propager le malheur autour de lui en rendant l'existence des autres aussi intolérable que l'est la sienne propre - ses premières victimes étant généralement ses parents." ~ Michel Houellebecq
44. "Por mucho valor, sangre fría y humor que uno acumule a lo largo de su vida, siempre acaba con el corazón destrozado. Y entonces uno deja de reírse. A fin de cuentas ya sólo quedan la soledad, el frío y el silencio. A fin de cuentas, sólo queda la muerte." ~ Michel Houellebecq
45. "Considérant les événement présent de notre vie, nous oscillons sans cesse entre la croyance au hasard et l'évidence du déterminisme." ~ Michel Houellebecq
46. "Nezanedbávajte nic, co by vám mohlo priniest trochu rovnováhy. Štastie na vás tak ci tak necaká; to je už velmi dlho isté. Ale ak sa vám podarí zachytit niektorú z napodobenín štastia, chytte ju. Neváhajte.Tak ci onak to dlho nepotrvá." ~ Michel Houellebecq
47. "What the boy felt was something pure, something gentle, something that predates sex or sensual fulfillment. It was the simple desire to reach out and touch a loving body, to be held in loving arms. Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so difficult to give up hope." ~ Michel Houellebecq
48. "Non rimaneva ormai nulla delle produzioni letterarie e artistiche di cui l'umanità era stata così fiera; i temi che le avevano originate avevano perduto pertinenza, il loro potere di emozione era svanito. Non rimaneva nulla nemmeno dei sistemi filosofici o teologici per i quali gli uomini si erano battuti, erano talvolta morti, avevano ancora più spesso ucciso; tutto ciò non destava ormai la minima eco in un neoumano, non ci vedevamo altro che le divagazioni arbitrarie di spiriti limitati, confusi, incapaci di produrre il minimo concetto preciso o semplicemente utilizzabile." ~ Michel Houellebecq
49. "On beach holidays, as perhaps in life more generally, the only truly enjoyable time of the day is breakfast." ~ Michel Houellebecq
50. "A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided this form of meagre compensation. If we couldn't have sex from time to time, what would life be? A futile struggle against joints that stiffen, caries that form. All of which, moreover, is as uninteresting as humanly possible - the collagen which makes muscles stiffen, the appearance of microbic cavities in the gums." ~ Michel Houellebecq
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I was occupied so entirely by each day, I felt detached from anything so large as a month or a year. History didn't cross my mind. Now it does. Now I know, whatever your burdens, to hold yourself apart from the lot of more powerful men is an illusion. On that awful day in January 1961, Lumumba paid with a life and so did I. On the wings of an owl the fallen Congo came to haunt even our little family, we messengers of goodwill adrift on a sea of mistaken intentions."
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