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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from. "

" After all, God is God because he remembers. "

" 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. "

" In Jewish history there are no coincidences. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I never teach the same course twice. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. "

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

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

" What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically. "

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

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