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- I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still…
- The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud,…
- After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.
- My loyalty to my people, to our people, and to Israel comes first and prevents me from saying anything critical of Israel outside Israel… As…
- 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…
- Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
- The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory…
- I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children. And tell them,…
- Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?
- For me, every hour is grace.
- If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
- What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.
- Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
- [Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?'…
- He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
- I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.
- Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot…
- One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not…
- His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept…
- From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left…
- There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great…
- I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.
- It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life.…
- My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” I…
- 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…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale