What about you, Michel, what are you going to do here?' The response closest to the truth was probably something like 'Nothing'; but it's always difficult to explain that kind of thing to an active person.

Michel Houellebecq
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  1. Universe is nothing, but human thought. - Farid Huseynli

  2. Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse — and the writer’s. - Glen Duncan

  3. There's a fine line, you know. Between having space and having nothing. - Anne Corlett

  4. As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much. - Francine Pascal

  5. To do nothing is the way to be nothing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

More Quotes By Michel Houellebecq
  1. The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

  2. Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

  3. An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would...

  4. Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

  5. People often say that the English are very cold fish, very reserved, that they have a way of looking at things — even tragedy — with a sense of irony. There’s some truth in it; it’s pretty stupid of them, though. Humor won’t save you;...

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