A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
SAUL BELLOWA great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what’s in it – they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
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