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" In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody. "

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" 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. "

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" The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. "

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" I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They cannot mix. "

" For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile. "

" Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. "

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" I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language. "

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" I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it. "

" 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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" 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. "

" We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else. "

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

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" There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. "

" If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope. "

" 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. "

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

" Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments. "

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