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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
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Solomon Bellows
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Men
Love
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You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do that. But it's much more interesting to talk about books. After all, that's what life used to be for writers: they talk books, politics, history, America. Nothing has replaced that.
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One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.
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A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
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Love is the most potent cosmetic.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
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Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.
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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.
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The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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There is simply too much to think about.
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There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.
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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.
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