Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath.
It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.
What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't believe; tomorrow it's God Himself you won't take stock in.
The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.
What nature creates has eternity in it.
There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God--a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.
But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. ("Hanka")
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