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The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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S Ashok said: " Isac Bashevis Singer Collected Short stories there are such Gems.
There are three broad themes in this collection, three broad stages of Singer's life himself.

1. Stories on the Jewish Heritage
There are stories which are more like Rabbi folklore as col ...more "

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“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

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“Kings are the slaves of history.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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“The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned”
― Antonio Gramsci

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“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
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