Q166: The Rain King

Just finished Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King, and here are some quotes that stood out:

"[...] in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness."

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"A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him.  He shall keep the blow.   No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition."

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"Oh, death from what we do not want is the most common of all the causes."

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"[...] if I wasn't going to abide by that one sentence, what good would it do to read the entire book?"

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"[...] it's love that makes reality reality.   The opposite makes the opposite."

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"More or less the same fear, more or less the same desire for thousands of generations.   Child, father, father, child doing the same.  Fear the same.  Desire the same.  [...]  Well, Henderson, what are the generations for, please explain to me?   Only to repeat fear and desire without a change?   This cannot be what the thing is for, over and over and over.  Any good man will try to break the cycle."

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"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."

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"The repetition of a man's bad self, that's the worst suffering that's ever been known."