Michel Houellebecq. The ability of the island (№ 155939)

Sexual pleasure is not only superior in sophistication and power all other pleasures given by life; it is not just the only pleasure, without effecting any damage to the body, on the contrary, helps to maintain it in the highest level of vital energy; it is actually the only pleasure and the sole purpose of human existence, and all the others - delicious food, tobacco, alcohol, drugs is just ridiculous, desperate compensatory measures, mini-suicides, cowardly hiding his true identity, attempts to quickly destroy the body, lost access to the only pleasure.