After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. Shmuel Yosef Agnon Read Quote
Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people. Shmuel Yosef Agnon Read Quote
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it. Shmuel Yosef Agnon Read Quote
The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital. Shmuel Yosef Agnon Read Quote
I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel. Shmuel Yosef Agnon Read Quote
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile. Shmuel Yosef Agnon Read Quote
I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen. Shmuel Yosef Agnon Read Quote
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. Shmuel Yosef Agnon Read Quote
