Aharon Appelfeld famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
-- Aharon Appelfeld

#People #Parent #Young
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

#Writing #Israel #People
I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
-- Aharon Appelfeld

#Writing #Metaphor #Catastrophe
A person has to be by himself a little bit. We werenâ€™t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.
-- Aharon Appelfeld

#Mind #Littles #Togetherness
I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.
-- Aharon Appelfeld

#Feelings #Naked #Generations
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

#Civilization #Voice #Individuality
A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.
-- Aharon Appelfeld

#Writing #Stories #Wells
Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
-- Aharon Appelfeld

#Art #Reality #Imagination
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.
-- Aharon Appelfeld

#Believe #Men #Different
My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.
-- Aharon Appelfeld

#Night #Nightmare #Rich

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