To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this … - Michel Houellebecq

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Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.

Michel Houellebecq

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

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I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

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A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.

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When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

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People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.

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There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

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Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.

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Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference. . . instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.

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