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Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars.

Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars.

Saul Bellow
War, Blood, Half
SAUL BELLOW (1944). “DANGLING MAN”

The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.

Saul Bellow
Dream, Heart, Men

It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.

Saul Bellow
Spiritual, Mean, Men
Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American to think that he participates in the life of the entire country. It does not actually place him in a community, but his heart is warmed with the suggestion (on the whole false) that there is a community somewhere in the vicinity and that his atomized consciousness will be drawn back toward the whole.

Saul Bellow
Country, Heart, Thinking
Saul Bellow (2016). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future”, p.141, Odyssey Editions

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

Saul Bellow
Science, Age, Lines

I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.

Saul Bellow
Book, Essentials, Tables

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