"Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world."

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Source : "The myth maker" by Michel Houellebecq, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

Michel Houellebecq

#Love Life Quotes #World Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.”
“I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.”
“I love life. I love the live theater.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.”
“Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.”
“It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.”
“We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.”
“I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.”

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