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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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You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try everything.
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Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was broken.
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