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You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.

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
Phenomena
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World

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The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
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How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
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Each man has his own batch of poems.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.
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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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