"Each man was his own executioner and his own victim."
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"Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him."
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"The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life...He played that which he would never play again."
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"I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be."
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"Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge."
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"One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that."
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"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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"I would say to [Chinese government], You don't need Tibet really. You don't need all the problems Tibet creates for you. It's so small, so far away. Give them their religious freedom and I know that they wouldn't misuse it."
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"[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble."
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"Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much."
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"I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so important, so essential to culture, religion, to civilization, and to our own lives. And that means what? It means not to be indifferent, not to stand idly by. That is a biblical commandment that we are committed."
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"I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people."
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"I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed."
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"My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud."
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"It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims"
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"If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to."
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"When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature."
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"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?"
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"The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition."
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"If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical."
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