“The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.”
Related authors
Other Shmuel Y. Agnon Quotes
I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.
Shmuel Y. Agnon 
57% of people like this quote
But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.
Shmuel Y. Agnon
49% of people like this quote
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
Shmuel Y. Agnon
48% of people like this quote
Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.
Shmuel Y. Agnon
48% of people like this quote