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What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all?

What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn’t to make a nobility of us all?
– Saul Bellow

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  2. The human being now simply can’t close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one’s fellows perhaps prevent full ????oning by artists. – Saul Bellow
  3. Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. – Saul Bellow
  4. The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop. – Saul Bellow
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  6. If I’m out of my mind, it’s all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. – Saul Bellow
  7. Just because your soul is being torn to pieces doesn’t mean that you stop analyzing the phenomena. – Saul Bellow
  8. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. – Saul Bellow
  9. You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time. – Saul Bellow
  10. 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
  11. Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there’s the devil to pay. – Saul Bellow
  12. One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away. – Saul Bellow
  13. At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth. – Saul Bellow
  14. I am not an ornithologist-”I am a bird. – Saul Bellow
  15. Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don’t want to lie more than is average. – Saul Bellow
  16. Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction. – Saul Bellow
  17. Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That’s how you can tell it’s valuable. – Saul Bellow
  18. Maybe America didn’t need art and inner miracles. It had so many outer ones. The USA was a big operation, very big. The more it, the less we. – Saul Bellow
  19. I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness. – Saul Bellow
  20. The noise of the world is so terrible that we can endure it only by being coated with sleep. – Saul Bellow
  21. Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same. – Saul Bellow
  22. The Indian temperament is so excitable, you know. – Saul Bellow
  23. No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending. – Saul Bellow
  24. You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write. – Saul Bellow
  25. Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy. – Saul Bellow
  26. Man boasts of his nobility, his ideals, and his progress. Man’s goal is imitation, not redemption. – Billy Graham
  27. Why we do what do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don’t know why we are doing what we are doing. – Michael White
  28. It is better to lose friends than to lose your reputation, and better to lose riches than to lose your integrity. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  29. 8. The Cat Who Lived in the PalaceThe cat who lived in the Palace had been awarded the head-dress of nobility and was called Lady Myobu. – Sei Shnagon
  30. the depth of a person’s character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility. – Frank E Peretti
  31. Remy tilted his head to sniff the air. -œI love that smell.- He turned his head to look over his shoulder. -œThe smell of fear. – Isaiyan Morrison
  32. A man’s worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations. – Hazrat Ali
  33. Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company. – Arthur Schopenhauer
  34. I needed to know, Jesse. I needed to get inside his head. To find this son of a bitch, I need to get inside his head.- – Stephanie Carovella – Nina DAngelo
  35. We all look back at some time or other and wonder why we didn’t listen to our instincts. Why did we hestiate? Why did we lose our dreams? – Diane Griffith
  36. What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. – Mary GrandPr
  37. Satan didn’t lose any of his beguiling ways when he became the fallen prince. He took his charm, his subtleties, and his clever plots to use on us. – Billy Graham
  38. Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white? – Tony DSouza
  39. Live in a dignified way with nobility, pride, strength, and kindness. – Seiji Fuji
  40. The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery. – Steven James

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