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A man is only as good as what he loves.

Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
Author
Essayist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Solomon Bellows
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Men
Love
Loves
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The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.
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It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.
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In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too
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Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
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A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.
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Fidelity is for phonographs
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You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.
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To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
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... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
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One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.
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A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?
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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
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(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
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