We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.
Elie WieselAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Journalist
- Nationality: american
- Born: September 30, 1928
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