"I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . ."
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"After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more."
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"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."
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"I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?"
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"I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance."
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"In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism."
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"Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children."
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"The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality."
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"What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls."
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"No human being is illegal."
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"Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?"
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"War is like night, she said. It covers everything."
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"Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds."
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"For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences."
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"Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain"
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"How can a human being be illegal?"
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"The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude."
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"I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!"
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"I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all. Genocide is something else. Genocide has been actually codified by the United Nations. It's the intent of killing, the intent of killing people, a community in this culture so forth, but no other people has been really interested."
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"I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both."
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