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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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'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. "

" Some stories are true that never happened. "

" Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. "

" 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. "

" It used to be said that when the Baal Shem Tov came into a town, his impact was so strong, he didn't have to speak. His disciples had to dance or to sing or to preach to have the same effect. I think a real messenger, myself or anyone, by the very fact that he is there as a person, as a symbol, could have the same impact. "

" I never teach the same course twice. "

" 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 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. "