"People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong."

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Source : Michel Houellebecq (2003). “Platform: A Novel”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

Michel Houellebecq

#Selfish Quotes #Men Quotes #Vacation Quotes

“I am so in love with you that there isnâ€™t anything else.”
“I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.”
“I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind.”
“I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that we all tend to understand a little more the needs for harmonizing the process and integrating races and cultures and producing multiculturalism and different melting-pot situations. That affects global things, tolerating the Arab, the African, the Eastern civilizations, getting rid of this hegemonic dominance by the West. That's all comprehensive now in terms both of understanding and approaching the whole planet.”
“The key of 'The Earth from Above,' and of 'Home' is to show the beauty of the planet, and thereby to promote love for it.”

Source : "Yann Arthus-Bertrand: Looking down on creation". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.
“I am a great supporter of bionics and this diversity in nature, this genetic diversity, is not available for free. We, as industrialized nations, have already sinned enough, and we have significantly reduced biodiversity in our countries. But now we expect the poor, less developed countries of the world to preserve their rainforests, mangrove forests and coral landscapes for us at no charge.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“If a man look upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the otherâ€™s birthright â€“ that of equality.”
“I have discovered in my long life that there are many words and phrases which have more power than any spell of magick. The most well-known of these is, of course, I love you. But by far the most deadly is, if only. For these two words can strip a man's strength, his courage and his confidence. They become the father of regret and anguish and pain.”

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