A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
~ Saul Bellow

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For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
~ Saul Bellow

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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
~ Saul Bellow

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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
~ Saul Bellow

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