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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
Saul Bellow
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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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Solomon Bellows
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All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.
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It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
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How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
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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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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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What do women want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.
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Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.
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If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
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For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
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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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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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Well, everybody has a history.
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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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One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.
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The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.
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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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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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Death deserves dignity.
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