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" In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die. "

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" I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful. "

" 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. "

" Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. "

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

" 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. "

" I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. "

" Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army. "

" Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history. "

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

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

" One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious. "

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

" 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. "

" I love teaching. "

" No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. "

" I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction. "

" In Jewish history there are no coincidences. "

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

" Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. "

" I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory. "

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

" A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. "

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

" Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe. "

" We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. "

" 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. "

" Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning. "

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

" Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. "