Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
Michel HouellebecqFather died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.
Michel HouellebecqTo the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live, and what's more, we continue to export it.
Michel HouellebecqAdolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.
Michel Houellebecq