We Jews Have A Secret

Show Me A Sensible Person Who Likes Himself Or Herself! I Know Myself Too Well To Like What I See. I Know But Too Well That I'm Not What I'd Like To Be.

I Have Always Felt Sorry For People Afraid Of Feeling, Of Sentimentality, Who Are Unable To Weep With Their Whole Heart. Because Those Who Do Not Know How To Weep Do Not Know How To Laugh Either.

Let Me Tell You Something That We Israelis Have Against Moses. He Took Us 40 Years Through The Desert In Order To Bring Us To The One Spot In The Middle East That Has No Oil!

If We Have To Have A Choice Between Being Dead And Pitied, And Being Alive With A Bad Image, We'd Rather Be Alive And Have The Bad Image.

It Is A Dreadful Thing To See The Dead City. Next To The Port I Found Children, Women, The Old, Waiting For A Way To Leave. I Entered The Houses, There Were Houses Where The Coffee And Pita Bread Were Left On The Table, And I Could Not Avoid [thinking] That This, Indeed, Had Been The Picture In Many Jewish Towns [i.e., In Europe, During World War Ii].