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“...from the bureaucratic point of view, a good citizen is a dead citizen.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

“The Monarch program is a mind control program. It is named after the Monarch butterfly, because, just as the butterfly changes its form – metamorphoses – so the controllers ‘trance-form’ the mind and personality of their subjects. Monarch recruits its victims when they are children, usually with the collusion of their parents.”
― Ccru, Ccru: Writings 1997-2003

“You don’t understand,’ Franz said patiently. ‘It’s not a particular art form, or manner, that interests me, it’s a personality, a view of the artistic gesture, of its situation in society. If you came here tomorrow with a simple sheet of paper, torn from a spiral notebook, on which you’d written “I don’t even know if I want to continue with art at all”, I would exhibit this sheet without hesitation. Yet I’m not an intellectual. But you interest me.”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Map and the Territory

“I’ve more or less finished with the world as narration – the world of novels and films, the world of music as well. I’m now only interested in the world as juxtaposition – that of poetry and painting.”
― Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire