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If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

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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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Herzog
Moses
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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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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
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I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.
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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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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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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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A man may say, From now on I'm going to speak the truth. But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.
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Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.
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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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How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
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The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.
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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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With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.
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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
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Love is the most potent cosmetic.
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