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Seize the Day
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"Seize the Day" Quotes

A man faces a series of personal and financial crises in one day.

Quotes

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

Saul Bellow

lifeuncertainty

What do you want? You want a man to be a man, don’t you?

Saul Bellow

gender roles

What a burden living was – the loss of one’s own self, the inability to think, to feel!

Saul Bellow

sufferinglife

I was attached to the world, and such a world! I would suffer as long as I lived.

Saul Bellow

attachmentsuffering

The sense of the end of time, the end of life, the end of hope, the end of the future.

Saul Bellow

despairhopelessness

What's the good of being alive?

Saul Bellow

existentialismdespair

The whole business of life was learning how to live.

Saul Bellow

lifelearning

One must be very strong to live close to despair and not be destroyed.

Saul Bellow

strengthdespair

The thing was to understand what the man wanted, and to give it to him.

Saul Bellow

empathyunderstanding

What was the point of seeing her, when she could no longer be loved?

Saul Bellow

loveloss