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

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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. "

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

" I love teaching. "

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

" 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. "

" Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. "

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

" Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine. "

" For me, every hour is grace. "

" In Jewish history there are no coincidences. "

" I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. "

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

" Some stories are true that never happened. "

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

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

" I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my 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. "

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

" 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 do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the Internet, I ask my secretary or students. I am lucky, because I have people who do it for me. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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