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" I write to understand as much as to be understood. "

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" 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. "

" It used to be said that when the Baal Shem Tov came into a town, his impact was so strong, he didn't have to speak. His disciples had to dance or to sing or to preach to have the same effect. I think a real messenger, myself or anyone, by the very fact that he is there as a person, as a symbol, could have the same impact. "

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

" Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone. "

" Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself. "

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" There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them. "

" 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. "

" If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am. "

" Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems. "

" I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. "

" I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. "

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

" Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man. "

" You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens. "

" Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For me, every hour is grace. "

" Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence. "

" When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling. "

" 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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