A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evil. Seen from the highest point of metaphysics. To a rational mind, nothing bad ever really happens. He was talking high-minded balls. Twaddle! I thought. I said, 'Oh? Do you mean that every gas chamber has a silver lining? Saul Bellow
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More Quotes By Saul Bellow
  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.
  4. A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.
  5. The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.
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