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  1. Saul Bellow _ Ravelstein

    Ravelstein mentioned that Keynes had married a Russian ballerina. He also explained to me that Uranus had fathered Aphrodite but that she had had no mother. She was conceived by the sea foam. He would say such things not because he thought I was ignorant of them but because he judged that I needed at a given moment to have my thoughts directed toward them.
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  2. Saul Bellow _ Ravelstein

    He didn't ask "Where will you spend eternity?" as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather, "With what, in this modern democracy, will you meet the demands of your soul?
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  3. Saul Bellow _ Ravelstein

    A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death."
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  4. Saul Bellow _ Ravelstein

    Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.
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  5. Saul Bellow _ Ravelstein

    Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
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