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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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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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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
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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 do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
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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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