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Just as despair can come

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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Memory feeds a culture, nourishes

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.
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Ultimately, the only power to

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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There is divine beauty in

There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.
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There are victories of the

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
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There is a difference between

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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I don't believe in accidents.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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Once you bring life into

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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I rarely speak about God.

I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.
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The opposite of love is

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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