“We are like fish
In this vast sea.
And Satan fishes
For you and me.”

—  Isaac Leib Peretz

"Monish" (translated in J. Leftwich. Golden Peacock. Sci-Art, 1939, p. 56.), 1888.

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Yiddish language author and playwright 1852–1915

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