#Saul Bellow

[quotespile]

Of course, in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too.

Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King

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[nobeerreviews]

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

-- Saul Bellow

(Cluj, Romania)

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[blackswaneuroparedux]

I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

- Saul Bellow

Photo: Monica Belluci, 1991.

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[derangedrhythms]

Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.

Saul Bellow, from 'Humboldt's Gift'

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[a-girl-and-her-quotes]

Saul Bellow

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[molecoledigiorni]

Per me, i soldi non sono un mezzo. Sono io il mezzo dei soldi. Passano attraverso di me – tasse, assicurazioni, ipoteche, mantenimenti dei figli, affitti, parcelle legali. Tutto questo dignitoso sbagliare costa un occhio.

- Saul Bellow

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[nobrashfestivity]

“True.  All too true.  I have never been at home in life.  All my decay has taken place upon a child.”

- Saul Bellow,  Henderson the Rain King

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[litsnaps]

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[dadsinsuits]

Saul Bellow

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[thepursuitofunderstanding]

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

Saul Bellow

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[thequietabsolute]

A poet is what he is in himself. Gertrude Stein used to distinguish between a person who is an 'entity' and one who has an 'identity.' A significant man is an entity. Identity is what they give you socially. Your little dog recognizes you and therefore you have an identity. An entity, by contrast, an impersonal power, can be a frightening thing. It's as T. S. Eliot said of William Blake. A man like Tennyson was merged into his environment or encrusted with parasitic opinion, but Blake was naked and saw man naked, and from the center of his own crystal. There was nothing of the 'superior person' about him, and this made him terrifying. That is an entity. An identity is easier on itself. An identity pours a drink, lights a cigarette, seeks its human pleasures, and shuns rigorous conditions. The temptation to lie down is very great.

— Saul Bellow, from Humboldt’s Gift

pg., 311

#can i be honesty for a moment while that’s still okay? #😌✌️ nothing on earth today makes me writhe around in anguished BOREDOM more than people talking endlessly about their ‘identities’ #boring boring boring boring #tedium upon boredom atop self lascerating self absorbed privileged boring fucks 🌿 #… ah. allow me these small outbursts of venom #saul bellow #humboldt’s gift #ts elliot #elliot #william blake #alfred lord tennyson #tennyson #blake #poetry #poet #poems #art #artist #english literature #american literature #quote #personal notes #gertrude stein

[quotespile]

In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings — about genocide, for instance, or about famine or the blowing up of passenger planes — and we are all aware that we are incapable of reacting appropriately. A guilty consciousness of emotional inadequacy or impotence makes people doubt their own human weight.

Saul Bellow, It All Adds Up

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[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." -- Saul Bellow

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[blackswaneuroparedux]

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

- Saul Bellow

Westminster Abbey.

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[derangedrhythms]

True. All too true. I have never been at home in life. 

Saul Bellow, from ‘Henderson the Rain King’

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[lascitasdelashoras]

Saul Bellow por Richard Avedon

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