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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
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University Teacher
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Solomon Bellows
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Herzog
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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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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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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You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
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It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
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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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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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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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When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
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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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