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My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

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
Blind
Face
Faces
Doesn
Instincts
Anything
Narrow
Mean
Intensity
Mind
Limited
Life
Instinct

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