Another of Simon’s friends in the camp. He is a businessman but Simon jokingly calls him “rabbi” because of his strong faith, which sometimes upsets Arthur. Like the others, Josek believes that Simon could not have forgiven Karl because Simon cannot forgive crimes that have been committed against others. Josek was also murdered in the concentration camps: one day he fell ill, and when he was unable to stand up to work, he was shot.
Josek Quotes in The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
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Book 1: The Sunflower
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One really begins to think that God is on leave. Otherwise the present state of things wouldn’t be possible […] What the old woman had said in no way shocked me, she had simply stated what I had long felt to be true.
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“Why,” I asked, “is there no general law of guilt and expiation? Has every religion its own ethics, its own answers?”
“Probably, yes.”
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Josek Quotes in The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
The The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness quotes below are all either spoken by Josek or refer to Josek. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 1: The Sunflower
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One really begins to think that God is on leave. Otherwise the present state of things wouldn’t be possible […] What the old woman had said in no way shocked me, she had simply stated what I had long felt to be true.
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“Why,” I asked, “is there no general law of guilt and expiation? Has every religion its own ethics, its own answers?”
“Probably, yes.”
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