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Saul Bellow bol americký spisovateľ židovského pôvodu; nositeľ Nobelovej ceny za literatúru z roku 1976. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. jún 1915 – 5. apríl 2005  •  Ďalšie mená سال بلو, სოლ ბელოუ
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“With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything…”

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Saul Bellow kniha Herzog

Zdroj: Herzog

“I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, "To hell with you."”

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Quoted in "Feeling Rejected? Join Updike, Mailer, Oates..." by Barbara Bauer and Robert F. Moss, New York Times (21 July 1985), section 7, page 1, column 1
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“I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.”

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Saul Bellow kniha Seize the Day

Zdroj: Seize the Day

“People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.”

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Zdroj: Conversations with Saul Bellow

“I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.”

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Saul Bellow kniha Henderson the Rain King

Zdroj: Henderson the Rain King

“Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.”

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“Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.”

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Saul Bellow kniha Ravelstein

Zdroj: Ravelstein

“You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.”

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Saul Bellow kniha Herzog

Zdroj: Herzog

“Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.”

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Saul Bellow kniha Seize the Day

Zdroj: Seize the Day

“I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.”

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Saul Bellow kniha The Adventures of Augie March

Zdroj: The Adventures of Augie March

“Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.”

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Saul Bellow kniha The Adventures of Augie March

Zdroj: The Adventures of Augie March

“Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.”

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Saul Bellow kniha Humboldt's Gift

Zdroj: Humboldt's Gift

“All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination. It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!”

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Saul Bellow kniha Henderson the Rain King

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Zdroj: Henderson the Rain King (1959) [Viking/Penguin, 1984, ISBN 0-140-07269-1], ch. XVIII, p. 271

“Conquered people tend to be witty.”

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Mr. Sammler's planet, (1976), p. 98
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“Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.”

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Saul Bellow kniha Herzog

Zdroj: Herzog

“She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.”

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Saul Bellow kniha Humboldt's Gift

Zdroj: Humboldt's Gift

“One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.”

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Saul Bellow kniha Humboldt's Gift

Zdroj: Humboldt's Gift

“It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.”

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Saul Bellow kniha Herzog

Zdroj: Herzog

“Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.”

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Saul Bellow kniha The Adventures of Augie March

Zdroj: The Adventures of Augie March

“Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?”

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Saul Bellow kniha Humboldt's Gift

Zdroj: Humboldt's Gift

“Facts always are sensational.”

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Saul Bellow kniha Seize the Day

Zdroj: Seize the Day

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