Le dôme de l'Institut avait une vraie grâce, dut-il convenir un peu malgré lui. Évidemment, donner une forme arrondie à un bâtiment ne pouvait se justifier en aucune manière; sur le plan rationnel, c'était simplement de la place perdue. La modernité était peut-être une erreur, se dit Jed pour la première fois de sa vie. Question purement rhétorique, d'ailleurs: la modernité était terminée en Europe occidentale depuis pas mal de temps déjà.
Michel Houellebecq« Pourquoi tu n'arrêtes pas ? » demanda Jed. Son père le regarda sans réagir, avec une expression d'incompréhension totale.
« Je veux dire que tu as gagné pas mal d'argent. Tu pourrais certainement te retirer, profiter un peu de la vie. » Son père le fixait toujours, comme si les mots n'arrivaient pas à son esprit, ou qu'il ne parvenait pas à leur donner un sens, puis au bout d'au moins une minute il demande : « Mais qu'est-ce que je ferais ? », et sa voix était celle d'un enfant égaré.
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.
Michel Houellebecqτι υπάρχει πίσω από αυτή την άρνηση, αυτή τη φοβία, αυτή την απόφαση να λέω όσο το δυνατόν λιγότερα και να μένω χωρίς ομολογία;
Michel Houellebecqη παρατεταμένη πίστη σε μια ολοφάνερα απούσα θεϊκή οντότητα προκαλούσε φαινόμενα αποβλάκωσης, τα οποία, μακροπρόθεσμα, ήταν ασύμβατα με τη διατήρηση ενός τεχνολογικού πολιτισμού
Michel HouellebecqThe world is mediocre,” Jed finally said. “And the person who committed this murder has increased the mediocrity in this world.
Michel HouellebecqIt's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.
Michel HouellebecqThirty years later he could not come to any other conclusion: women were indisputably better than men. They were gentler, more affectionate, more loving and more compassionate, they were rarely violent, selfish, cruel or self-centred. Moreover, they were more rational, more intelligent and more hardworking.
What on earth were men for? Michael wondered as he watched sunlight play across the closed curtains. In earlier times, when bears were more common, perhaps masculinity served a particular function, but for centuries now, men served no useful purpose. For the most part, they assuaged their boredom playing squash, which was a lesser evil; but from time to time they felt the need to change history - which expressed itself in leading a revolution or starting a war somewhere. Aside from the senseless suffering they caused, revolutions and war destroyed the achievements of the past, forcing societies to build again. Without the notion of continuous progress, human evolution took random, irregular and violent turns for which men (with their predilection for risk and danger, their repulsive egotism, their volatile nature and their violent tendencies) were directly to blame. A society of women would be immeasurably superior, tracing a slow, unwavering progression, with no U-turns and no chaotic insecurity, towards a general happiness.
Živio sam tako malo da sam sklon zamišljati kako uopće neću umrijeti; doima se nevjerojatnim da se ljudski život svede na tako malo; unatoč svemu, čovjek zamišlja da će se nešto prije ili kasnije dogoditi. Ozbiljna greška. Život itekako može biti prazan koliko i kratak. Dani jadno protječu, ne ostavljajući traga ni uspomena; a onda se najednom zaustave.
Michel HouellebecqStichwörter: houellebecq
Vivir sin leer es peligroso, obliga a conformarse con la vida, y uno puede sentir la tentación de correr riesgos.
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