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We were the masters of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth. At
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Elie Wiesel |
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We must not see person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish,
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Elie Wiesel |
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There is no discussing theology, sociology and politics when someone is under the spell of a self-enclosed totalitarian ideology. Intentionally or out of ignorance, Ahmed, who is empirical in all matters, detests pointless and laborious philosophical imaginings, never-ending discussions, or clashes of ideas that might be respectful of non-believer opponents and sinners deserving only of complete contempt.
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Elie Wiesel |
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Thoughts arise in the hostage's tormented brain. In the hospital, patients feel they are returning to childhood; in prison, they age. The gods blind themselves.
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Elie Wiesel |
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I remember a young Hungarian Jew, his shoulders stooped like an old man's, who confessed to some infraction so as to be beaten in his uncle's stead. "I am young", he said, "and stronger than he." He was young but no less weak. He did not survive the beating"
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Elie Wiesel |
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Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning.
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Elie Wiesel |
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A mn ages hs enemy because he hates his own hate. He says to himself: I hate him not because he's my enemy, not because he hates me, but because he arouses me to hate.
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Elie Wiesel |
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This was it; the end of the road. A silent death, suffocation. No way to scream, to call for help.
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Elie Wiesel |
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Even if I wrote on nothing else, it would never be enough, even if all the survivors did nothing but write about their experiences, it would still not be enough. *Response when asked how much longer is he going to write about the Holocaust
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Elie Wiesel |
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Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!" the Hungarian police were screaming. That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors. They were the first faces of hell and death."
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Elie Wiesel |
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What is the difference between Jew and Christians? We all await the Messiah. You believe He has already come and gone, while we do not. I therefore propose that we await Him together. And when He appears, we can ask Him: were You here before?
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Elie Wiesel |
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My hands were aching, I was clenching them so hard. To strangle the doctor and the others! To set the whole world on fire! My father's murderers! But even the cry stuck in my throat.
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Elie Wiesel |
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It was a destructive novel of acquired ideas. To finally wake up in a state of creative anguish, to lose oneself in order to find oneself again, to sleep in the arms of a beautiful student whose name one didn't know, to fall back to sleep over a love poem-that was called existence. The harmonics of artistic creation, of fertile sensibility, of anticipated events-history in movement-that was called a privilege.
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Elie Wiesel |
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YOM KIPPUR. The Day of Atonement. Should we fast? The question was hotly debated. To fast could mean a more certain, more rapid death. In this place, we were always fasting. It was Yom Kippur year-round. But there were those who said we should fast, precisely because it was dangerous to do so. We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, we were capable of singing His praises. I
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Elie Wiesel |
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Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.
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Elie Wiesel |
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That place, Mr. President, is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS.
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Elie Wiesel |
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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Elie Wiesel |
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In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
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Elie Wiesel |
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The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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Elie Wiesel |
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It's up to you now, and we shall help you -- that my past does not become your future.
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Elie Wiesel |
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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
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Elie Wiesel |
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They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.
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Elie Wiesel |
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The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal..."(Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)
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Elie Wiesel |
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BERISH: I distrust miracles. They exist only in books, and books say anything.
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Elie Wiesel |
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MENDEL: Once you're on your knees, you can't stand up straight again.
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Elie Wiesel |
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MARIA: Hell? Is he talking about hell? Good. For a moment I was afraid he was making sense.
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Elie Wiesel |
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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
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Elie Wiesel |
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If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.
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