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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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"God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity."

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"Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day."

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"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."

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