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"In the company of ignorance, be silent...or join the suffering."

"If you are right, no one will bother you in this world. If you do not hurt anyone in this world, or you have no intention of hurting anyone, then no one can hurt you."
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"Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence."

"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."

"The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light."

"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform."

"The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion."

"We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning."
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