"No one has a right to speak who, in the midst of thinking, hasn't been overcome with the experience of glimpsing the essence of history."
— Gershom Scholem

January 1, 1970

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Diary Entry (2 March 1916), published in Lamentations of Youth : The Diaries of Gershom Scholem, 1913-1919, p. 109