Quotes by Saul Bellow, Herzog

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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is. — Saul Bellow, Herzog
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! — Saul Bellow, Herzog
For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a mass. Transfor — Saul Bellow, Herzog
But then why shouldn't he write the dead? He lived with them as much as with the living - perhaps more; and besides, his — Saul Bellow, Herzog
If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. — Saul Bellow, Herzog
. . . Nietzche himself had a Christian view of history, seeing the present moment always as some crisis, some fall from — Saul Bellow, Herzog
No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ludicrous fools who — Saul Bellow, Herzog
And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do without gratification for — Saul Bellow, Herzog
History, memory - that is what makes us human, that, and our knowledge of death: 'by man came death'. For knowledge of d — Saul Bellow, Herzog
More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings a — Saul Bellow, Herzog
You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time — Saul Bellow, Herzog
Moses loved his relatives quite openly and even helplessly . . . It was childish of him; he knew that. He could only sig — Saul Bellow, Herzog
In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we — Saul Bellow, Herzog
Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't bear. The strong ca — Saul Bellow, Herzog
One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away. — Saul Bellow, Herzog
I am willing without further exercise in pain to open my heart. And this needs no doctrine or theology of suffering. We — Saul Bellow, Herzog
I venture to say Kierkegaard meant that truth has lost its force with us and horrible pain and evil must teach it to us — Saul Bellow, Herzog
Just then his state of being was so curious that he was compelled , himself, to see it -- eager, grieving, fantastic, da — Saul Bellow, Herzog
. . . [T]o live in an inspired condition, to know truth, to be free, to love another, to consummate existence, to abide — Saul Bellow, Herzog
Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction. — Saul Bellow, Herzog