Quotes From "Novels 19842000" By Saul Bellow

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The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature. Saul Bellow
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The human being now simply can't close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one's fellows perhaps prevent full buttoning by artists. Saul Bellow
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I discovered, however, in the early days of our marriage that, in having her way, she put my interests ahead of her own. Saul Bellow
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The noise of the world is so terrible that we can endure it only by being coated with sleep. Saul Bellow