Aharon Appelfeld quotes
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“People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.”
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
“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 -
“I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.”
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
“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 -
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“I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.”
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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 -
“A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.”
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
“Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.”
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
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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.”
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“My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.”
-- Aharon Appelfeld
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