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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.
Saul Bellow
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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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Love is the most potent cosmetic.
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And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try everything.
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From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
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I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.
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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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... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
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In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.
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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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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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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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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was broken.
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