“Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.”
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I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
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.
