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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

Bernard Malamud

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering Two

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

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