One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
Saul Bellow, Herzog.
“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
“You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time.”
“With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...”
“But then why shouldn't he write the dead? He lived with them as much as with the living - perhaps more; and besides, his letters to the living were increasingly mental, and anyway, to the Unconscio...”
“If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.”
“Moses loved his relatives quite openly and even helplessly . . . It was childish of him; he knew that. He could only sigh at himself, that he should be so undeveloped on that significant side of hi...”
“I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A river, suffering because reflections of clouds and tress and not clouds and trees.”
“Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as Ive said before, bugs in amber.”
“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
“Don't just stand there and nod. The mind observes and cogitates, the heart engages, and I would encourage you to engage with the process.”
“The necessary and needful reaction from the collective unconscious expresses itself in archetypally formed ideas. The meeting with oneself is, at first, the meeting with one's own shadow. The shado...”
“The unconscious no sooner touches us than we are itwe become unconscious of ourselves. That is the age-old danger, instinctively known and feared by primitive man, who himself stands so very close ...”
“The toughest bullshit to cut through, is one's own.”
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.”