Saul Bellow Quotes
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If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
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Death deserves dignity.
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It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
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It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.
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Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.
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And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
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...chaos doesn't run the whole show.
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For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
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There is simply too much to think about.
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Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.
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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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I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
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The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature. (Referenced in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young)
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I must play the instrument I've got.
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Fidelity is for phonographs
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The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.
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At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.
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You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do that. But it's much more interesting to talk about books. After all, that's what life used to be for writers: they talk books, politics, history, America. Nothing has replaced that.
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The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
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How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
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I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul.
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Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.
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Well, everybody has a history.
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Let the enemies of life step down.