Quotes by Shmuel Y Agnon

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in...

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Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person,...

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The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also...

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The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as...

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Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in...

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Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop...

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If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over...

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I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of...

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I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written...

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I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book...

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

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

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