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One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.
Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.
From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist," he said. "I have to be.
I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).
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.
Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
Beggars inspired me with mingled feelings of love and fear. I knew that I ought to be kind to them, for they might not be what they seemed.
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
THE BELOVED OBJECTS that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions. Every
First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
As a child I was afraid of death. I was not afraid to die, but every time I thought of death I shuddered.
My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.
You see, Doctor, what people say is true: man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn't others. It's ourselves.
We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them
When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.
The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.
I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.
I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it ...
Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.
There were two sorts of light in the room: one white, around the sleeping Gideon and Joab, the other black, enveloping the ghosts.
After trampling over many bodies and corpses, we succeeded in getting inside. We let ourselves fall to the ground.
Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going.