Michel Houellebecq: Citations en anglais

Michel Houellebecq est écrivain français. Citations en anglais.
Michel Houellebecq: 158 citations1 J'aime

“As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.”

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Michel Houellebecq livre Les Particules élémentaires

Source: The Elementary Particles

“It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.”

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Michel Houellebecq livre Plateforme

Source: Platform

“It may well be impossible for people who have lived and prospered under a given social system to imagine the point of view of those who feel it offers them nothing, and who can contemplate its destruction without any particular dismay.”

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Michel Houellebecq

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“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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Michel Houellebecq livre Les Particules élémentaires

Source: The Elementary Particles