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“ With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything... ”

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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

~ Saul Bellow

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

~ Saul Bellow

The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.

~ Saul Bellow

I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the warehouse of good intentions: Can't do it now. Then put it on hold. This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.

~ Saul Bellow