Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there’s the devil to pay.

Saul Bellow
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  1. 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.

  2. A man is only as good as what he loves.

  3. Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

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

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