Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fit to meet human kind again without driving it to despair at the first look? I haven't had enough desert yet.

Saul Bellow
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  2. Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue). - Jess C. Scott

  3. When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it? - Shannon L. Alder

  4. How sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet - Robert Browning

  5. Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? - Charles Bukowski

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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