"The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference"
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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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"Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal."
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"I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They even have a word for it: The refugees. It's a new word, a 20th Century word, but refugee is actually a misnomer."
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"Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write."
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"There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps."
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"My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith."
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"Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe."
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"Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper."
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"Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins."
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"I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means."
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"When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t"
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"My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith."
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"Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny."
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"Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems."
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"The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?"
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"Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes."
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"I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again."
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"I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book produced more books, thousands, hundreds of thousands of books, and in the book we found our memory, and our attachment to that memory is what kept us alive."
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"Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies."
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