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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
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Solomon Bellows
Unexpected
Beauty
Life
Intrusions
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I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.
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Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was broken.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul.
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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 main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
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In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good.
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I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.
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Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.
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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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A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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Well, everybody has a history.
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From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
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We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.
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Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty but learn to be happy alone.
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It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read daily and view on the TV has thrust imagined forms into the shadow. We are staggeringly rich in facts, in things, and perhaps, like the nouveau riche of other ages, we want our wealth faithfully reproduced by the artist.
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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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