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  1. Saul Bellow _ Henderson the Rain King

    Fantasia, fantasia, fantasia. Si trasforma in realtà. Essa sorregge, essa altera, essa redime!
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  2. Saul Bellow _ Henderson the Rain King

    And I dreamed down at the clouds, and thought that when I was a kid I had dreamed up at them, and having dreamed at the clouds from both sides as no other generation of men has done, one should be able to accept his death very easily.
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  3. Saul Bellow _ Henderson the Rain King

    Every twenty years or so the earth renews itself in young maidens. You know what I mean? Her cheeks had the perfect form that belongs to the young; her hair was kinky gold. Her teeth were white and posted on every approach. She was all sweet corn and milk. Blessings on her hips. Blessings on her thighs. Blessings on her soft little fingers which were somewhat covered by the cuffs of her uniform. Blessings on that rough gold. A wonderful little thing; her attitude was that of a pal or playmate, as is common with Midwestern young women
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  4. Saul Bellow _ Henderson the Rain King

    But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I read, "The forgiveness of sins is perpetual and righteousness first is not required.
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  5. Saul Bellow _ Henderson the Rain King

    And the process started over again. Once more it was, Who are you? And I had to confess that I didn't know where to begin.
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  6. Saul Bellow _ Henderson the Rain King

    Some powerful magnificence not human in other words, seemed under me. And it was the same mild pink colour, like the water of a watermelon, that did it. At once I recognised the importance of this, as throughout my life I had known these moments when the dumb begin to speak, when I hear the voices of objects and colours; then the physical universe starts to wrinkle and change and heave and rise and smooth, so it seems even the dogs have to lean against a tree, shivering.
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  7. Saul Bellow _ Henderson the Rain King

    I wish my dead days would quit bothering me and leave me alone. The bad stuff keeps coming back, and it's the worst rhythm there is. The repetition of a man's bad self, that's the worst suffering that's ever been known.
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  8. Saul Bellow _ Henderson the Rain King

    But maybe time was invented so that misery might have an end. So that it shouldn't last forever? There may be something in this. And bliss, just the opposite, is eternal? There is no time in bliss. All the clocks were thrown out of heaven."
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  9. Saul Bellow _ Henderson the Rain King

    Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there's the devil to pay.
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  10. Saul Bellow _ Henderson the Rain King

    Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fit to meet human kind again without driving it to despair at the first look? I haven't had enough desert yet.
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  11. Saul Bellow _ Henderson the Rain King

    ...between human beings there are only two alternatives, either brotherhood or crime.
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  12. Saul Bellow _ Henderson the Rain King

    You don't know the meaning of true love if you think it can be deliberately selected. You just love, that's all. A natural force, irresistible.
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