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.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [07/13/2011 12:07:27]

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.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [07/13/2011 12:07:26]

Sometimes small things lead to great joys.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [07/13/2011 12:07:55]

But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]