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Quotes from Humboldt's Gift — Saul Bellow

1915–2005 Canada

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

Humboldt's Gift (1975)

I never yet touched a fig leaf that didn't turn into a price tag.

Humboldt's Gift (1975)

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

Humboldt's Gift (1975)

Once you had read the Psychopathology of Everyday Life, you knew that everyday life was psychopathology.

Humboldt's Gift (1975)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Saul Bellow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.