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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.
Saul Bellow
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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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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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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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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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I must play the instrument I've got.
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It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
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People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
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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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We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.
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... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
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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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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.
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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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Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.
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It is a joy to be choked with thought.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was broken.
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