Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.