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Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.

Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.
– Saul Bellow

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  2. If I’m out of my mind, it’s all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. – Saul Bellow
  3. Just because your soul is being torn to pieces doesn’t mean that you stop analyzing the phenomena. – Saul Bellow
  4. 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
  5. People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. – Saul Bellow
  6. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. – Saul Bellow
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away. – Saul Bellow
  11. At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth. – Saul Bellow
  12. I am not an ornithologist-”I am a bird. – Saul Bellow
  13. Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. – Saul Bellow
  14. Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don’t want to lie more than is average. – Saul Bellow
  15. Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction. – Saul Bellow
  16. 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
  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. The Indian temperament is so excitable, you know. – Saul Bellow
  22. No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending. – Saul Bellow
  23. You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write. – Saul Bellow
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy. – Saul Bellow
  27. If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy – Boethius
  28. Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority. – GK Chesterton
  29. System fails when people with ability don’t have authority and people with authority don’t have ability. – Amit Kalantri
  30. Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose. – Israelmore Ayivor
  31. …a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator…. – John Geddes
  32. Body and soul can never be marriedI need to become who I already am and will bellow forever at this incongruity which has committed me to hell – Sarah Kane
  33. Don’t give me that Christian forgiveness bullshit, Dukach. I’m a vindictive Jew!- he’d bellow. – Jonathan Galassi
  34. Some girls have a real sexy giggle, but whenever I laugh it always comes out somewhere between a bellow and a snort! – Elizabeth Jane Howard
  35. Saul’s vitals were not human, but familiar:he never told me he was from another world:I never told him I was from his future. – Joe Haldeman
  36. Whenever governments adopt a moral tone – as opposed to an ethical one – you know something is wrong. – John Ralston Saul
  37. Inevitably, Saul’s faraway heart would turn to faraway actions. – Beth Moore
  38. the greatest Americanshave not been born yetthey are waiting patientlyfor the past to die – Saul Williams
  39. It made leaving bearable, knowing I’d had that kind of love in my life. Knowing I’d had the best thing. – Saul Black
  40. It made leaving bearable, knowing I’d had that kind of love in my life. Knowing I’d had the best thing. – Saul Black

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