Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
7 quotes
"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."
"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."
"Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit."
"Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic."
"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."
"The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it."
"The Enlightened One, if he had meditated on it, would not necessarily have rejected a technical solution."