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 APPELFELDA 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 APPELFELDMy nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.
AHARON APPELFELDI had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.
AHARON APPELFELDI am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
AHARON APPELFELDI see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something.
AHARON APPELFELDA person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.
AHARON APPELFELDCan art be completely invented? It’s a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
AHARON APPELFELDThe writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
AHARON APPELFELDA story is not only meaning, it’s music as well.
AHARON APPELFELDPeople who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
AHARON APPELFELDThe 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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