"No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night."
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"I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table."
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"This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer."
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"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."
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"We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph."
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"Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies."
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"Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside."
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"Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present."
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"In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous."
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"For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future."
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"Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred."
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"Some stories are true that never happened."
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"You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back."
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"Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed."
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"Questions outlive the answers."
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"Not to transmit an experience is to betray it."
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"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."
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"I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance."
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"For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share."
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"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed."
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