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" I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born. "

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" I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it. "

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" When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a fascination with the vanished world, and I can find everything except that world. "

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" Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins. "

" My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed. "

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" Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. "

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" When I was young I lost everything. "

" There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. "

" That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. "

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" No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. "

" I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics. "

" Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. "

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" I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. "

" That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal. "

" When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. "

" It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. "

" In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism. "

" Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. "