Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 10

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• I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

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  Book, Destiny, People

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.12, Macmillan

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• He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

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  Lying, Answers, Insistence

  Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

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• Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.

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  Night, Long, Holocaust

  Night ch. 3 (1960)

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• This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Responsibility

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• It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his last hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could see Juliek, opposite me, slumped over, dead. Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming little corpse.

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  Dark, Past, Opposites

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• Questions outlive the answers.

  Elie Wiesel

  Answers

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• A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

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  War, Holy, Contradiction

  "Hope, Despair and Memory". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.

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• I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.

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  Children, Believe, Single Child

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• Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

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  Life, Friendship, Relationship

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.57, Schocken

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• The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.

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  Stars, Eye, Fire

  Elie Wiesel (1985). “Night ; Dawn ; Day”, Jason Aronson

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• Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.

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  Attitude, Touch Me, Rabbi

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

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  Wall, Civilization, Magic

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• There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.

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  Real, People, Stories

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal.

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  Pain, Betrayal, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

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  Writing, Order, Sculpture

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Men, Brain

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• In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

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  Coffee, Waiting, Tradition

  "10 Questions for Elie Wiesel". Interview with Jeff Chu, content.time.com. January 22, 2006.

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• Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

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  Children, People, Civilized Nations

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.180, Schocken

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• How can a human being be illegal?

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  Illegal, Humans, Human Beings

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• That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

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  Beautiful, Girl, Writing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2000.

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• Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

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  Death, Winning, Men

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

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  Deeds And Words, Silence, Grace

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.8, Schocken

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• Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

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  Peace, War, Men

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• War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

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  War, Night, Said

  Elie Wiesel (1985). “Night ; Dawn ; Day”, Jason Aronson

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