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“Una mentira ideal consiste en la yuxtaposición de diferentes elementos de verdad entre los cuales se efectúan algunas elipsis; de hecho está compuesta esencialmente de omisiones, a veces con algunas exageraciones bien dosificadas”
― Michel Houellebecq, Aniquilación

“Devaluar el pasado y el presente en beneficio del futuro, devaluar lo real para preferir una virtualidad situada en un futuro incierto, son síntomas del nihilismo europeo mucho más decisivos que todo los que Nietzsche pudo detectar;”
― Michel Houellebecq, Aniquilación

“What is the therapeutic path? Is there one? How can we remedy a wound the size of existence? Of course, total recall— ecphoric excavation to the point of obsidian and diamantine repose—is the only therapeutic route. When presented with an infection such as a brain, eudemonia and euthanasia converge.”
― Thomas Moynihan, Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History

“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