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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

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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Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.
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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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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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I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.
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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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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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Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.
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There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.
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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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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
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The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether.
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It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
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It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.
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How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
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O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
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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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