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Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.

Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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Solomon Bellows
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Nobody
Spiritual
Language
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I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.
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Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
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You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.
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Death deserves dignity.
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It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
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And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
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I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.
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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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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
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Well, everybody has a history.
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All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.
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