Quotes by : Michel Houellebecq

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally....

It is possible to construct a history which is logically consistent. It cannot be said to be true; simply....

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of....

The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry....

The map is more interesting than the territory.

The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened,....

Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom,....

Much, maybe too much, has been written about literature.

In societies like ours sex truly represents a second system of differentiation, completely independent....

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral....