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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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'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. "

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" I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. "

" Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. "

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

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

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

" For me, every hour is grace. "

" 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. "

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

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

" You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens. "

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" Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone. "

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" 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. "

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

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