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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Age: 87 †
Born: 1904
Born: July 14
Died: 1991
Died: July 24
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Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.
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As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
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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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But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. (Hanka)
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.
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One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.
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Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.
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In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.
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The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.
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A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.
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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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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.
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When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why should man then expect mercy from God? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.
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Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?
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Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
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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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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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