Without memory, our existence would be barren and opaque, like a prison cell into which no light penetrates; like a tomb which rejects the living. Memory saved the Besht, and if anything can, it is memory that will save humanity. For me, hope without memory is like memory without hope.

“Hope, Despair and Memory”, conferència pronunciada l’11 de desembre del 1986 amb motiu de la concessió del Premi Nobel de la Pau

Foto: Andrew Polushkin, Memory Erosion