Chaim Potok citations (21 citations)

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Chaim Potok: Citations en anglais

“…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.”

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Chaim Potok livre Davita's Harp

Source: Davita's Harp

“You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and dimension all its own.”

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Chaim Potok livre The Chosen

Danny Saunders to Reuven Malter
Source: The Chosen (1967)

“Something that is yours forever is never precious”

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Chaim Potok livre My Name Is Asher Lev

Source: My Name Is Asher Lev

“Reuven, as you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them— "ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.”

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Chaim Potok livre The Chosen

David Malter to Reuven Malter (p. 110)
Source: The Chosen (1967)

“No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.”

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Chaim Potok livre The Chosen

Source: The Chosen

“Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul”

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“Art begins… when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.”

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Chaim Potok livre The Gift of Asher Lev

Source: The Gift of Asher Lev

“It's not a pretty world, Papa.'
'I've noticed,' my father said softly.”

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Chaim Potok livre My Name Is Asher Lev

Source: My Name Is Asher Lev

“Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.”

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Chaim Potok livre My Name Is Asher Lev

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“Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown”

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Chaim Potok livre My Name Is Asher Lev

Source: My Name Is Asher Lev

“I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.”

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Chaim Potok livre My Name Is Asher Lev

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“A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.”

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Chaim Potok livre My Name Is Asher Lev

Source: My Name Is Asher Lev

“Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home who has found his people everywhere.”

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“If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.”

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Chaim Potok livre The Chosen

Source: The Chosen

“Life connects us, Benjamin, not artifice.”

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Old Men At Midnight

“It was senseless, as— I held my breath, feeling myself shiver with fear— as Billy's blindness was senseless.”

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Chaim Potok livre The Chosen

Reuven Malter when thinking about the death of Pres. Roosevelt
The Chosen (1967)

“I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a son? A heart I need for a son, a soul I need for a son, compassion I want from my son, righteousness, mercy, strength to suffer and carry pain, that I want from my son, not a mind without a soul!"”

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Chaim Potok livre The Chosen

Reb Saunders to Reuven Malter (p. 264)
The Chosen (1967)

“It is never pleasant to be a buffer, Reuven.”

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Chaim Potok livre The Chosen

David Malter to Reuven Malter
The Chosen (1967)

“I don't understand why I wanted to kill you.”

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Chaim Potok livre The Chosen

Danny Saunders to Reuven Malter
The Chosen (1967)

“Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much, if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye?…I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing; but the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing; but the man who lives the span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life. It is hard work to fill one's life with meaning- that, I do not think you understand yet. A life filled with meaning is worthy of rest. I want to be worthy of rest when I am no longer here.”

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Chaim Potok livre The Chosen

David Malter to his son, Reuven (p. 217)
The Chosen (1967)

“[Danny] laughed once and said, 'That man is such an ignoramus, Father.' I was angry. 'Look into his soul,' I said. 'Stand inside his soul and see the world through his eyes. You will know the pain he feels because of his ignorance, and you will not laugh.' He was bewildered and hurt. The nightmares he began to have…. But he learned to find answers for himself. He suffered and learned to listen to the suffering of others. In the silence between us, he began to hear the world crying.”

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Chaim Potok livre The Chosen

Reb Saunders to Reuven Malter when talking about when Daniel was younger (p. 286)
The Chosen (1967)

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