Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 21

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• First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

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  Strong, Risk, Firsts

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• Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?

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  Art, Military, War

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• Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

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  Thinking, Photographer, Sometimes

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• Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to.

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  Thinking, Historical, Elements

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

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  Thinking, Would Be, Want

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

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  Mean, Differences, Pieces

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other verbs and other images. No, that wasn't it either. But what exactly was that it I was searching for? It must have been all that eludes us, hidden behind a veil so as not to be stolen, usurped and trivialized. Words seemed weak and pale.

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  Writing, Mean, Elude Us

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• And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.

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  Writing, Reap

  Elie Wiesel (2010). “All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs”, p.17, Schocken

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• I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

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  God, Silence, Quality

  Interview with John S. Friedman, The Paris Review, No. 91, Spring 1984.

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• There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

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  Indifferent, Grants

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• The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.

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  Regret, Sin, I Regret

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• There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!

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  Destiny, Encounters, Accidents

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• Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

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  Trying, Jewish Faith, Defining Moments

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.

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  Mean, Offering, Grace

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.172, Schocken

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• Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

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  Creativity, Evil, Enemy

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• Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

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  Fate, Compassion, Fantasy

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Time of the Uprooted: A Novel”, p.271, Schocken

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• I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events.

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  Biblical, Events, Doe

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of the story in the later Priestly source, it is more miraculous: The water stands up on either side like a wall. There are walls of water standing up. As you move back in time, oddly enough, the story becomes more historical.

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  Wall, Moving, Sea

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

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  Action, Indifference, Danger

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.143, Macmillan

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• Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.

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  Students, Concerned, Findings

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.

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  Humanity, Today, Concerned

  Elie Wiesel (1982). “Night”, New York, Bantam

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• If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

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  Men, Offering, Fellow Man

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.75, Schocken

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• I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

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  Education, Use, May

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “Souls on Fire”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

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  Memories, Past, Keywords

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• As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of the mythological, of an epic.

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  Epic, Yams, Quality

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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