Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't … - Saul Bellow

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Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love — or what good is it?

Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow (10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988.

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