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Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.

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
Writer
Solomon Bellows
Chaos
Art
Order
Made
Life

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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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(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
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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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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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If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything
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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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The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
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My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?
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You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
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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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... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
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I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.
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It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
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Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.
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