TagThe Adventures of Augie March

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March

Flattery is agreeable because it says fundamentally this: What you are, pleases me.

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

We are the sum of all the moments of our lives—all that is ours is in them: we cannot escape or conceal it.

Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March

The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing.

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

Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.

Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March

When you love someone, you end up caring about each person they love. It’s peculiar but that’s how you find yourself very sincerely concerned about a dog or a cat.

Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March