#Saul Bellow

Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out — a long schedule like a federal document,

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His mind took one of its odd jumps. He opened a clean page in his grimy notebook, and in the twig-divided shade of a

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There are evils, as someone has pointed out, that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever — money,

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It seems, after all, that there are no nonpeculiar people.

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Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there’s the devil to pay.

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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

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I want to tell you, don’t marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as

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I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

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