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There is simply too much to think about.

Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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University Teacher
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Solomon Bellows
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The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.
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A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
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What do women want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.
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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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Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
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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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It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
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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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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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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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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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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
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It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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Death deserves dignity.
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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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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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