"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."

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Source : Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.285, Vintage

Michel Houellebecq

#World Quotes #Humans Quotes

“In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.”
“Enjoy the fact that you're a woman and men will enjoy it too.”
“Develop strength and control at an early age and embrace love coupled with a selfless heart. Only then, will you find true peace in your heart and begin the journey to the best version of yourself and the best days of your life.”
“Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.”
“There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia as slaves.”
“The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.”

Source : Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.188, John Wiley & Sons
“Something to remember, that: cats for missiles.”
“O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.”

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