"Pain involves the violation or transgression of the border between inside and outside, and it is through this transgression that I feel the border in the first place"

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I am a Jew, Israel is a Jewish state. . . . Israel’s case is my case, Israel’s enemies are my enemies, and I do not want to be spared the troubles which Israeli musicians encounter when they represent the Jewish state beyond its borders.

— Evgeny Kissin