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I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.
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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Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.
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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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Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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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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The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.
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It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.
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If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
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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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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
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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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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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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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In relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka.
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Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
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