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“Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.”

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Michel Houellebecq is a French author known for his incisive social commentary and unique literary style. His works often explore themes of loneliness, consumerism, and the meaning of human existence in modern society. more

“Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, but it is as if she were invisible, no eyes follow her as she walks. People feel uncomfortable when they are with her. They find it easier to ignore her. A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal. Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.”

People Ifs Feels Hands Seems Eye Beautiful Girl Chance Walks Fate Easier Invisible Unhappy Uncomfortable Tragic Adolescence Unreal Seductive Freshness Tragic Fate

Book:The Elementary Particles

Source: The Elementary Particles

“Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of minor interest. Thus it is possible to imagine a depressed lover, while the idea of a depressed patriot seems frankly inconceivable.”

Humans Ideas Seems Interest Imagine Lovers Ordinary Concern Profound Radical Indifference Minors Patriot Withdrawal Depressive Lucidity

Author:Michel Houellebecq

“Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.”

May Important Speak Periods Adolescence

Book:Whatever

Source: Whatever

“I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.”

Ifs Matter Life Is Universe Heavy Boots Insignificant Heavy Boots

Book:Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

“Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.”

Faith Doubt Atheism Fanaticism

Author:Robertson Davies

“Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.”

World Causes Animal Numbers Greater Climate Climate Change Contribution Global Warming Agriculture Transportation Eating Animals Animal Agriculture

Book:Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

“When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.”

Becoming Flesh Meat Vegetarian Vegan Factories Vegetarianism Veganism Sustenance Factory Farming Eating Animals

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured animal need to be to make you want to hear it that badly? Try to imagine any end other than taste for which it would be justifiable to do what we do to farmed animals.”

Want Needs Trying Ends Would Be Artist Sound Animal Imagine Judging Taste Gallery Arresting

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Cats ask plainly for what they want.”

Want Asks Cat

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.”

Moral Atheism Competition Positive Atheism Checks Fierce Commerce Neighbour Sects

Book:The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree

Source: The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree

Quote by Michel Houellebecq

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