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Henderson the Rain King
by Saul Bellow
This is now one of my favorites. There is no book like it. It's just amazing. I want to read it all over again right now.
"Whatever gains I ever made were always due to love and nothing else."
Henderson is soooooooo flawed, yet so lovable. What a great character. What a great story. What a great book.
"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."
"...the geniuses love common life a great deal...Light itself was all Einstein needed. What could be more common?"
"All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!"
"I think that part of the beauty emotion does result from an overcoming of fear. When the fear yields, a beauty is disclosed in its place. This is also said of perfect love if I recollect, and it means that ego-emphasis is removed."
I would recommend this book to everyone, because even if someone were to get nothing out of it, it's short and a fun read to top it all off.
"Whatever gains I ever made were always due to love and nothing else."
Henderson is soooooooo flawed, yet so lovable. What a great character. What a great story. What a great book.
"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."
"...the geniuses love common life a great deal...Light itself was all Einstein needed. What could be more common?"
"All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!"
"I think that part of the beauty emotion does result from an overcoming of fear. When the fear yields, a beauty is disclosed in its place. This is also said of perfect love if I recollect, and it means that ego-emphasis is removed."
I would recommend this book to everyone, because even if someone were to get nothing out of it, it's short and a fun read to top it all off.