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Shmuel Y. Agnon

"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile."

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"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile."

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Donna Grant

"I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none."

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Donna Grant

"We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe."

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Donna Grant

"Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign."

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Donna Grant

"Cities are the greatest creations of humanity."

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Donna Grant

"Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn't necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that's that."

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Donna Grant

"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile."

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Donna Grant

"Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities."

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Donna Grant

"Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia."

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Donna Grant

"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities."

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Donna Grant

"As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed."

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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul."

Nature

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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk."

Man

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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes."

Eye

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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile."

Cities

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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen."

God

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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel."

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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere."

Age

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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital."

Home

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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem."

Wisdom

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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing."

Memory

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