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I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.
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One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.
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Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.
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I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.
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I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They cannot mix.
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Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
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Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
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It used to be said that when the Baal Shem Tov came into a town, his impact was so strong, he didn't have to speak. His disciples had to dance or to sing or to preach to have the same effect. I think a real messenger, myself or anyone, by the very fact that he is there as a person, as a symbol, could have the same impact.
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The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough.
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I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.
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When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a fascination with the vanished world, and I can find everything except that world.
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I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.
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I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the Internet, I ask my secretary or students. I am lucky, because I have people who do it for me.
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I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.
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I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
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That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
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When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from.
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If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope.
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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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Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
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For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.
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Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
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What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
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I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.
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I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing 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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In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
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I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.
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Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
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In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
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It's clear to me that one can't be Jewish without Israel. Religious or non-religious, Zionist or non-Zionist, Ashkenazi or Sephardic - all these will not exist without Israel.
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No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
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Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
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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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