"Sometimes small things lead to great joys." — Shmuel Yosef Agnon
"Sometimes small things lead to great joys."
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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17 Quotes by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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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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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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But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.
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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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