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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

Saul Bellow

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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
Life
Intrusions
Intrusion
Unexpected
Beauty

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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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... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
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The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.
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To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.
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Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything
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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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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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Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.
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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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Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
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I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.
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Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?
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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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If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
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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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My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?
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