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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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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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Solomon Bellows
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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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Facts always are sensational.
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I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.
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Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
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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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Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.
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Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.
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Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was broken.
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