Joseph

“Trust in God, for He has entrusted you
With a sacred duty. What else can you do?”
― João Pinto Delgado, The Poem of Queen Esther

“We did not study Talmud. Instead, his father talked of the Jewish world in Europe, of the people he had known who were now probably dead, of the brutality of the world, of his years in Russia with the Cossack bands looting and plundering.

'The world kills us,' he said quietly. 'Ah, how the world kills us.”
― Chaim Potok, The Chosen

“Who should be King save him who makes us free?”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, Tennyson's Idylls of the King

“With a lack of limitation, a man can feel
A giddiness as if only he were real,
And the world is nothing but his dream or nightmare.”
― João Pinto Delgado, The Poem of Queen Esther