"It's usually the selfish people who are loved……" — Saul Bellow
"It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart."
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Saul Bellow
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215 Quotes by Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow has 215 quotes on this site.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we…
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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the…
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism…
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact…
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I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to…
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I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the…
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To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her…
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
— John Burroughs
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