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They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.
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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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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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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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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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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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 has to trust that God knows how to manage the world.
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If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how strongly I feel in this regard.
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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
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Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?
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Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid nets from the unspun thread.
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