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A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

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
Men
Limits
Everyone
Desire
Cannot
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Everything
Must
Desires
Giving
Wild

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