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 Yosef Agnon)

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 Yosef Agnon

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