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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."

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"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."

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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

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"God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas."

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"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."

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"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything."

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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."

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"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."

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"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

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"What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?"

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"You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside."

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"Anyone who truly loves God travels securely."

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"For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes."
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"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."
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"I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it."
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"Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing."
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"After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem."
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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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"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."
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"If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after."
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"Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk."
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"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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