574 Quotes by Saul Bellow
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The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it – that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.
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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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The paltriness of these sexual struggles.
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But what if you get nailed?” He said, “I’ll explain how I feel about it. You see, I don’t have larceny in my heart; I’m not a real crook. I’m not interested in it, so nobody can make a fate of it for me. That’s not my fate. I might get into a little trouble, but I never would let them make it my trouble, get it?” I.
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I’m afraid there’s nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.
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Do you have feelings? There are correct and incorrect ways of indicating them. Do you have an inner life? It is nobody’s business but your own. Do you have emotions? Strangle them.
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You have to fight for your life. That’s the chief condition on which you hold it.
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Fun comes hard – like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
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Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn’t destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love – or what good is it?
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