"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."

Beginning, Difference, Result

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"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."

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"Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world."

Life

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

Death

"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."

Knowledge

"In Jewish history there are no coincidences."

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"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."

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

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"Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies."

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"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other."

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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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"From Jeff Greenfield: 'I once asked Elie Wiesel 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' 'An optimist,' he said. 'I have to be."

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