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- A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish…
- 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…
- After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.
- No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny,…
- Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
- The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.
- 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 spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.
- In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the…
- He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair.…
- Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
- The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.
- Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
- 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…
- One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.
- 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.
- Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of…
- 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…
- For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
- Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can…
- Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
- Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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