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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. "

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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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. "

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

" For me, every hour is grace. "

" In Jewish history there are no coincidences. "

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

" For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share. "

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

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

" I never teach the same course twice. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. "

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

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

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

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

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

" The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough. "

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