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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Age: 87 †
Born: 1904
Born: July 14
Died: 1991
Died: July 24
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All is foreseen but the choice is given.
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.
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Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath.
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No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.
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There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world.
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I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
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Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However, anyone who has ever lived with an animal-be it a dog, a bird, or even a mouse-knows that this theory is a brazen lie, invented to justify cruelty.
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