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People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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Essayist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Solomon Bellows
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