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If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman
Martin Buber
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Martin Buber
Age: 87 †
Born: 1878
Born: February 8
Died: 1965
Died: June 13
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This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form.
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And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.
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I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue.
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The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.
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