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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow
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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.
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I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
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I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul.
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My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether.
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If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
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Love is the most potent cosmetic.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
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You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
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Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.
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We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.
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I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
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At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.
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In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?
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It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.
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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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