Berthold Auerbach
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"Berthold Auerbach" was a German-Jewish poet and author. He was the founder of the German "tendency novel", in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions.

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He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.

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Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

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