"But always I regarded myself as one who……" — Shmuel Yosef Agnon
"But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem."
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17 Quotes by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon has 17 quotes on this site.
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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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Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a…
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After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
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I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put…
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Sometimes small things lead to great joys.
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As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its…
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The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books…
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I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe,…
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At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and…
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Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one…
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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…
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As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of…
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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
— David Attenborough
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
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I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Art is born of humiliation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
— Marcus Aurelius
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where…
— Sai Baba
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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What…
— Richard Bach
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when…
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
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