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Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.

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
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Solomon Bellows
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Plenty
Species
Evidence
Crazy

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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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There is simply too much to think about.
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Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty but learn to be happy alone.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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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 blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.
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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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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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Love is the most potent cosmetic.
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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
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I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.
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The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.
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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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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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The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.
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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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