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מארש רדצקי

by Joseph Roth

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The God of the Woods

by Liz Moore (Goodreads Author)

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The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch 1743-1933

by Amos Elon

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“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”
― Woody Allen

tags: love

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer

tags: attributed-no-source, cats, life, music

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“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”
― Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice

tags: pride-and-prejudice

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“The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Quintessence of Ibsenism

tags: believe, liar, lie, punishment

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