Beauty’s True Source

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March

All a man’s affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March

Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.

Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March

There is no fineness in poverty with nothing noble about it at all.

Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March