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I returned to Jerusalem, and ...

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.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon 39 quotes

Who were my mentors in poetry...

Who were my mentors in poetry and literature? This is a matter of opinion. Some see in my books the influences of authors whose names, in my ignorance, I have not even heard, while others see the influences of poets whose names I have heard but whose writings I have not read. And what is my opinion? From whom did I receive nurture? Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon 39 quotes

People's talk and the stories...

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.

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Our days on earth are like a ...

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.

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Our sages of blessed memory h...

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. The same applies to pleasures of the sight. And the same applies to pleasures of the ear.

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Sometimes small things lead t...

Sometimes small things lead to great joys.

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On everything you need to hea...

On everything you need to hear other people's opinions. It's the only way to do things. You ask a friend's advice and then between the two of you things somehow get clearer.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon 39 quotes

If we eat any food, or drink ...

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon 39 quotes

Not every man remembers the n...

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

Shmuel Yosef Agnon 39 quotes

At the age of nineteen and a ...

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.

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But perhaps the truth newly d...

But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.

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But always I regarded myself ...

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

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The fate of the singers who, ...

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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The beginnings of my studies ...

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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Through these offices it was ...

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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As a result of the historic c...

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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Our sages of blessed memory h...

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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When I first began to combine...

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.

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I have also written a book ab...

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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I was five years old when I w...

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

Shmuel Yosef Agnon 39 quotes

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