Aharon Appelfeld Quotes

• People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Young Parents, People, Loses

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• Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Art, Reality, Imagination

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• The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Writing, Israel, People

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• I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Believe, Men, Different

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• The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Civilization, Voice, Individuality

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• A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Mind, Littles, Togetherness

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• My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Night, Nightmare, Rich

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• I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Feelings, Naked, Generations

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• A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Writing, Stories, Wells

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• I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Writing, Metaphor, Catastrophe

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