Author: Michel Houellebecq

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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.

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.

- Michel Houellebecq

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

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

- Michel Houellebecq

The most stupid religion is Islam.

The most stupid religion is Islam.

- Michel Houellebecq

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

- Michel Houellebecq

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.

- Michel Houellebecq

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

- Michel Houellebecq

You know, you don't have to have permanent opinions. You can think, every morning, 'I love the world' and go to bed every night thinking, 'I hate the world.'

You know, you don't have to have permanent opinions. You can think, every morning, 'I love the world' and go to bed every night thinking, 'I hate the world.'

- Michel Houellebecq

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

- Michel Houellebecq

Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.

Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.

- Michel Houellebecq

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