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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.
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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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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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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There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love... In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.
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Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.
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It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]
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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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To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.
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Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.
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All is foreseen but the choice is given.
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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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