A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us … - Michel Houellebecq

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I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

Michel Houellebecq

A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided this form of meagre compensation. If we couldn't have sex from time to time, what would life be? A futile struggle against joints that stiffen, caries that form. All of which, moreover, is as uninteresting as humanly possible - the collagen which makes muscles stiffen, the appearance of microbic cavities in the gums.

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