In Mr. Lublin's Store Quotes

“All my life I have generally avoided my neighbors. If I happen to encounter one of them I immediately move somewhere else.”
― S.Y. Agnon, In Mr. Lublin's Store

“I wanted to say something as a man does who suddenly finds himself in a quiet place but I said nothing, like a man who suddenly finds himself in a quiet place and also keeps quiet.”
― S.Y. Agnon, In Mr. Lublin's Store

“As night falls the city extricates itself from the work of the day and the stars prepare to come out. These were not the stars I was used to in the skies of my town and in the Land of Israel, but they are stars nevertheless. I'm grateful to them because even in a strange land they console me.”
― S.Y. Agnon, In Mr. Lublin's Store

“You haven't been conscripted and I have to delay my return home so I'll stay with you while you tell me about these good people you've seen. One doesn't encounter good people every day and people don't see the good in others. You are blessed, Mr. Jakob, that God has brought good people to you and that you have discovered them to be good.”
― S.Y. Agnon, In Mr. Lublin's Store

“Tears won't saturate the dead and weeping will not raise him from his grave, if he has one. We should do for the living what we are unable to do for the dead.”
― S.Y. Agnon, In Mr. Lublin's Store