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Gertie Gold
Saul is Varya, Daniel, Klara, and Simon’s father, as well as Gertie’s husband. After inheriting his tailoring business from his father Lev, Saul devotes his life to working and raising his children. Since his older children have other interests, Saul plans to pass on the business to Simon (which Simon rejects after Saul’s death). Saul is a very religious man: Klara remembers him studying the Talmud endlessly. He also enjoys watching Klara’s magic tricks, and she believes that they have a kinship because they view magic and religion in the same way: as a means of understanding the supernatural aspects of life. Saul dies unexpectedly of a heart attack when he is only 45.
Saul Gold Quotes in The Immortalists
The The Immortalists quotes below are all either spoken by Saul Gold or refer to Saul Gold. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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All the while, something loomed larger, closer, until Simon was forced to see it in all its terrible majesty: his future. Daniel had always planned to be a doctor, which left one son—Simon, impatient and uncomfortable in his skin, let alone in a double-breasted suit. By the time he was a teenager, the women’s clothing bored him and the wools made him itch. He resented the tenuousness of Saul’s attention, which he sensed would not last his departure from the business, if such a thing were even possible.
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In New York, he would live for them, but in San Francisco, he could live for himself. And though he does not like to think about it, though he in fact avoids the subject pathologically, he allows himself to think it now: What if the woman on Hester Street is right? The mere thought turns his life a different color; it makes everything feel urgent, glittering, precious.
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Chapter 13
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In Hebrew school, she loved the stories. Miriam, embittered prophet, whose rolling rock provided water during forty years of wandering! Daniel, unharmed in the lions’ den! They suggested that she could do anything…
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Saul Gold Quotes in The Immortalists
The The Immortalists quotes below are all either spoken by Saul Gold or refer to Saul Gold. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 1
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All the while, something loomed larger, closer, until Simon was forced to see it in all its terrible majesty: his future. Daniel had always planned to be a doctor, which left one son—Simon, impatient and uncomfortable in his skin, let alone in a double-breasted suit. By the time he was a teenager, the women’s clothing bored him and the wools made him itch. He resented the tenuousness of Saul’s attention, which he sensed would not last his departure from the business, if such a thing were even possible.
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In New York, he would live for them, but in San Francisco, he could live for himself. And though he does not like to think about it, though he in fact avoids the subject pathologically, he allows himself to think it now: What if the woman on Hester Street is right? The mere thought turns his life a different color; it makes everything feel urgent, glittering, precious.
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Chapter 13
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In Hebrew school, she loved the stories. Miriam, embittered prophet, whose rolling rock provided water during forty years of wandering! Daniel, unharmed in the lions’ den! They suggested that she could do anything…
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