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Saul Bellow Quote: “No life so barren and subordinate that it didn’t have imaginary dignities, honors to come, freedom to advance.”

451. “No life so barren and subordinate that it didn’t have imaginary dignities, honors to come, freedom to advance.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “For to be fully conscious of oneself as an individual is also to be separated from all else.”

452. “For to be fully conscious of oneself as an individual is also to be separated from all else.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Is it an easier farewell for Dad if we don’t part friends?”

453. “Is it an easier farewell for Dad if we don’t part friends?”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “She has two husbands. Whose are the kids? The fellow detected her and she gave a signed confession that two of the four children were not the father’s.”

454. “She has two husbands. Whose are the kids? The fellow detected her and she gave a signed confession that two of the four children were not the father’s.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Gratitude! I was deeply grateful. But the politic gratitude of weakness, of the sufferer, furious underneath.”

455. “Gratitude! I was deeply grateful. But the politic gratitude of weakness, of the sufferer, furious underneath.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “It seemed necessary for him to lift one shoulder in order to put his hand into his jacket pocket.”

456. “It seemed necessary for him to lift one shoulder in order to put his hand into his jacket pocket.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “She liked to give the example of Whistler the painter when he was taken to task by a woman who said, “I never see trees like that.” He told her, “No, ma’am, but don’t you wish you could?” This could be a variation on “Ye have eyes and see not,” an aesthete’s version of it.”

457. “She liked to give the example of Whistler the painter when he was taken to task by a woman who said, “I never see trees like that.” He told her, “No, ma’am, but don’t you wish you could?” This could be a variation on “Ye have eyes and see not,” an aesthete’s version of it.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Can’t dump the sonofabitch, can we? Terrible handicap, a soul.”

458. “Can’t dump the sonofabitch, can we? Terrible handicap, a soul.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “It is better to die what you are than to live a stranger forever.”

459. “It is better to die what you are than to live a stranger forever.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “He turned out to be right. Grielescu had attached himself to the Nazis, not to the milder, Italian form of fascism.”

460. “He turned out to be right. Grielescu had attached himself to the Nazis, not to the milder, Italian form of fascism.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “He tried to make his lust comical, to show how absurd it all was, easily the most wretched form of human struggle, the very essence of slavery.”

461. “He tried to make his lust comical, to show how absurd it all was, easily the most wretched form of human struggle, the very essence of slavery.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “But the Jews feel that the world was created for each and every one of us, and when you destroy a human life you destroy an entire world – the world as it existed for that person.”

462. “But the Jews feel that the world was created for each and every one of us, and when you destroy a human life you destroy an entire world – the world as it existed for that person.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Never has any country given its people so many toys to play with or sent such highly gifted individuals to the remotest corners of idleness, as close as possible to the frontiers of pain.”

463. “Never has any country given its people so many toys to play with or sent such highly gifted individuals to the remotest corners of idleness, as close as possible to the frontiers of pain.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “I got a lawyer, and she got one, too, and both of them talk and send me bills, and I eat my heart out.”

464. “I got a lawyer, and she got one, too, and both of them talk and send me bills, and I eat my heart out.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “An old man, disappointed, of failing strength, may try to reinvigorate himself by means of anger.”

465. “An old man, disappointed, of failing strength, may try to reinvigorate himself by means of anger.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “But you find people who have their luck and take the credit for it, too – all brains and personality, when all that happened was that they were handed a bucket when it rained.”

466. “But you find people who have their luck and take the credit for it, too – all brains and personality, when all that happened was that they were handed a bucket when it rained.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “But a man doesn’t need happiness for himself. No, he can put up with any amount of torment – with recollections, with his own familiar evils, despair. And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do without gratification for himself provided there is something great, something into which his being, and all beings, can go. He does not need meaning as long as such intensity has scope. Because then it is self-evident; it is meaning.”

467. “But a man doesn’t need happiness for himself. No, he can put up with any amount of torment – with recollections, with his own familiar evils, despair. And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do without gratification for himself provided there is something great, something into which his being, and all beings, can go. He does not need meaning as long as such intensity has scope. Because then it is self-evident; it is meaning.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Pretpostavimo da sam ja apsolutno u pravu a da monsignor, na primjer, ima potpuno krivo. Ako sam ja u pravu, problem suvislosti svijeta, i sva odgovornost za nju, postaju moji.”

468. “Pretpostavimo da sam ja apsolutno u pravu a da monsignor, na primjer, ima potpuno krivo. Ako sam ja u pravu, problem suvislosti svijeta, i sva odgovornost za nju, postaju moji.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “He was a splendid old man, only partly fraudulent, and what more can you ask of anyone?”

469. “He was a splendid old man, only partly fraudulent, and what more can you ask of anyone?”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “As if death had tried her with his teeth and found her still unripe.”

470. “As if death had tried her with his teeth and found her still unripe.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “He was looking for the Knight of Faith, the real prodigy. That real prodigy, having set its relations with the infinite, was entirely at home in the finite. Able to carry the jewel of faith, making the motions of the infinite, and as a result needing nothing but the finite and the usual. Whereas others sought the extraordinary in the world. Or wished to be what was gaped at.”

471. “He was looking for the Knight of Faith, the real prodigy. That real prodigy, having set its relations with the infinite, was entirely at home in the finite. Able to carry the jewel of faith, making the motions of the infinite, and as a result needing nothing but the finite and the usual. Whereas others sought the extraordinary in the world. Or wished to be what was gaped at.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “They did not know how much he cared for them. No. It hurt him greatly and he blamed Margaret for turning them against him. She wanted to ruin him, while she wore the mask of kindness.”

472. “They did not know how much he cared for them. No. It hurt him greatly and he blamed Margaret for turning them against him. She wanted to ruin him, while she wore the mask of kindness.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Free personalities getting no help from either deaf heaven or neutral earth were facing mortally dangerous choices which would determine the future of civilization.”

473. “Free personalities getting no help from either deaf heaven or neutral earth were facing mortally dangerous choices which would determine the future of civilization.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “The only truly interesting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It’s fascinating that hatred should be so personal as to be almost loving. The knife and the wound aching for each other. Much of course depends upon the vulnerability of the intended. Some cry out, and some swallow the thrust in silence. About the latter you could write the inner history of mankind.”

474. “The only truly interesting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It’s fascinating that hatred should be so personal as to be almost loving. The knife and the wound aching for each other. Much of course depends upon the vulnerability of the intended. Some cry out, and some swallow the thrust in silence. About the latter you could write the inner history of mankind.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “I know that I don’t have to be next year what I was last year. I’ve been at one end and I can get to the other. There’s no limit to what I can be. And even if I should miss being so dazzling, I know the idea of it is genuine.”

475. “I know that I don’t have to be next year what I was last year. I’ve been at one end and I can get to the other. There’s no limit to what I can be. And even if I should miss being so dazzling, I know the idea of it is genuine.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “No, the truth must be something we understand at once, without an introduction or explanation, but so common and familiar that we don’t always realize it’s around us.”

476. “No, the truth must be something we understand at once, without an introduction or explanation, but so common and familiar that we don’t always realize it’s around us.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Goethe once stated that anyone who merely increased his knowledge without at the same time showing himself what to do with it poisoned his life.”

477. “Goethe once stated that anyone who merely increased his knowledge without at the same time showing himself what to do with it poisoned his life.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “The strength of a man’s virtue or spiritual capacity measured by his ordinary life.”

478. “The strength of a man’s virtue or spiritual capacity measured by his ordinary life.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “To God he jotted several lines. How my mind has struggled to make coherent sense. I have not been too good at it. But have desired to do your unknowable will, taking it, and you, without symbols. Everything of intensest significance. Especially if divested of me.”

479. “To God he jotted several lines. How my mind has struggled to make coherent sense. I have not been too good at it. But have desired to do your unknowable will, taking it, and you, without symbols. Everything of intensest significance. Especially if divested of me.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Man is a creature who has something to say about everything under the sun.”

480. “Man is a creature who has something to say about everything under the sun.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Depressives cannot surrender childhood – not even the pains of childhood.”

481. “Depressives cannot surrender childhood – not even the pains of childhood.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “But what about justice? – Justice! Look who wants justice! Most of mankind has lived and died without – totally without it. People by the billions and for ages sweated, gypped, enslaved, suffocated, bled to death, buried with no more justice than cattle.”

482. “But what about justice? – Justice! Look who wants justice! Most of mankind has lived and died without – totally without it. People by the billions and for ages sweated, gypped, enslaved, suffocated, bled to death, buried with no more justice than cattle.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “I felt singularly ashamed of not being a doctor.”

483. “I felt singularly ashamed of not being a doctor.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “The elderly ladies were rouged and mascaraed and hennaed and used blue hair rinse and eye shadow and wore costume jewelry, and many of them were proud and stared at you with expressions that did not belong to their age.”

484. “The elderly ladies were rouged and mascaraed and hennaed and used blue hair rinse and eye shadow and wore costume jewelry, and many of them were proud and stared at you with expressions that did not belong to their age.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “And what about all the good I have in my heart – doesn’t it mean anything? Is it simply a joke? A false hope that makes a man feel the illusion of worth? And so he goes on with his struggles. But this good is no phony. I know it isn’t. I swear it. Again, he was greatly excited.”

485. “And what about all the good I have in my heart – doesn’t it mean anything? Is it simply a joke? A false hope that makes a man feel the illusion of worth? And so he goes on with his struggles. But this good is no phony. I know it isn’t. I swear it. Again, he was greatly excited.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “You had to talk with yourself in the daytime and reason with yourself at night. Who else was there to talk to in a city like New York?”

486. “You had to talk with yourself in the daytime and reason with yourself at night. Who else was there to talk to in a city like New York?”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Maybe the making of mistakes expressed the very purpose of his life and the essence of his being here.”

487. “Maybe the making of mistakes expressed the very purpose of his life and the essence of his being here.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Margaret would tell him he did not really want a divorce; he was afraid of it. He cried, “Take everything I’ve got, Margaret. Let me go to Reno. Don’t you want to marry again?” No. She went out with other men, but took his money. She lived in order to punish him.”

488. “Margaret would tell him he did not really want a divorce; he was afraid of it. He cried, “Take everything I’ve got, Margaret. Let me go to Reno. Don’t you want to marry again?” No. She went out with other men, but took his money. She lived in order to punish him.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “She just has fixed herself on me to kill me. She can do it at long distance. One of these days I’ll be struck down by suffocation or apoplexy because of her.”

489. “She just has fixed herself on me to kill me. She can do it at long distance. One of these days I’ll be struck down by suffocation or apoplexy because of her.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “I know how long – endless – people’s stories are when they have grievances. And how tedious for everyone.”

490. “I know how long – endless – people’s stories are when they have grievances. And how tedious for everyone.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “But then he realized that he did not need to perform elaborate abstract intellectual work – work he had always thrown himself into as if it were the struggle for survival. But not thinking is not necessarily fatal. Did I really believe that I would die when thinking stopped? Now to fear such a thing – that’s really crazy.”

491. “But then he realized that he did not need to perform elaborate abstract intellectual work – work he had always thrown himself into as if it were the struggle for survival. But not thinking is not necessarily fatal. Did I really believe that I would die when thinking stopped? Now to fear such a thing – that’s really crazy.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “But I’m thinking of the great death populations of the Gulags and the German labor camps. Why does the century – I don’t know how else to put it – underwrite so much destruction? There is a lameness that comes over all of us when we consider these facts.”

492. “But I’m thinking of the great death populations of the Gulags and the German labor camps. Why does the century – I don’t know how else to put it – underwrite so much destruction? There is a lameness that comes over all of us when we consider these facts.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Is it faith? Or is it simply childishness, expecting to be loved for doing your bidden task? It is, if you’re looking for the psychological explanation, childish and classically depressive.”

493. “Is it faith? Or is it simply childishness, expecting to be loved for doing your bidden task? It is, if you’re looking for the psychological explanation, childish and classically depressive.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Looking for happiness – ought to be prepared for bad results.”

494. “Looking for happiness – ought to be prepared for bad results.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “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.”

495. “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.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Why should one man have the power to damage all nature or pollute the entire world?”

496. “Why should one man have the power to damage all nature or pollute the entire world?”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “No one seemed satisfied, and Wilhelm was especially horrified by the cynicism of successful people. Cynicism was bread and meat to everyone And irony, too. Maybe it couldn’t be helped.”

497. “No one seemed satisfied, and Wilhelm was especially horrified by the cynicism of successful people. Cynicism was bread and meat to everyone And irony, too. Maybe it couldn’t be helped.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “No court would have awarded her the amounts he paid.”

498. “No court would have awarded her the amounts he paid.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “He was an extremely correct person except that he never shaved in the morning, not caring, probably, how he looked to the fumblers and the old people and the operators and the gamblers and the idlers of Broadway uptown.”

499. “He was an extremely correct person except that he never shaved in the morning, not caring, probably, how he looked to the fumblers and the old people and the operators and the gamblers and the idlers of Broadway uptown.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “That’s right. That was bad. Especially winters. You should have had more sense. That house made a prisoner of her. It must have been just dreary, washing and cooking, and to have to hush the baby, or you’d raise hell, she said. You couldn’t think when June was crying, and you’d rush from your room hollering.” “Yes, I was stupid – a blockhead.”

500. “That’s right. That was bad. Especially winters. You should have had more sense. That house made a prisoner of her. It must have been just dreary, washing and cooking, and to have to hush the baby, or you’d raise hell, she said. You couldn’t think when June was crying, and you’d rush from your room hollering.” “Yes, I was stupid – a blockhead.”

— Saul Bellow

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