Top 12 Aharon Appelfeld Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. I didn't see her die, but I did hear her one and only scream
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#3. A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren't born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.
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#4. Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted
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#5. People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
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#7. The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
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#8. I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.
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#9. I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
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#10. 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.
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#11. My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.
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#12. Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
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