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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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Vera Miles

"I love to watch cities wake up, and Paris wakes up more abruptly, more startlingly, than any place I know."

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Vera Miles

"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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Vera Miles

"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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Vera Miles

"Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country."

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Vera Miles

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

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Vera Miles

"I can set up shop anywhere. I've got my oils, I've got my yoga mat and I'm good to go. I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet."

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Vera Miles

"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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Vera Miles

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

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Vera Miles

"I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit."

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Vera Miles

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

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

Wisdom

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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
"The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half."

Time

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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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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
"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
"I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it."

Father

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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people."

Love

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