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"Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning."
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"There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink."

"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."

"The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost."

"The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole."

"Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck."

"I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night."
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"Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world."

"Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins."

"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."

"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."

"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."

"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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