Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 11

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

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  Life Is, Contact, Fascinated

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Day: A Novel”, p.122, Macmillan

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• The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

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  Learning, Jewish Tradition, Immortality

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.31, Schocken

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• The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.

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  Sea, Sky, Needs

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Day: A Novel”, p.45, Macmillan

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• I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

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  Encouragement, Two, Historical

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• I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

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  Believe, Serious, Endeavor

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• What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

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  Philosophy, Knowledge, Mean

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.87, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

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  Eye, People, Promise

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.104, Macmillan

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• If enough people are sensitive to the tragedy of Tibet, I think it will produce a change politically as well. But furthermore, it's important for the people in Tibet. Now communication is such [that] people know what is happening. Even Tibetan people would know that the Interfaith or the international group of religious people - that everybody who is religious is taking up their cause. It would help them a lot if we give them courage, and that in itself is enough.

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  Religious, Communication, Thinking

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

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  Believe, Book, Yesterday

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.11, Macmillan

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• I have absolutely no problem with the young Germans. I even feel sorry for the young Germans because to be maybe sons or daughters of killers is different than them to be sons and daughters of the victims. And I felt sorry for them. I still do.

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  Daughter, Sorry, Son

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

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  Self, Trying, Self Conscious

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• Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words

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  Music, Giving, Doe

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• If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

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  Memories, Writing, Hatred

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.8, Schocken

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• It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.

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  Children, Memories, War

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.5, Macmillan

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• The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others. It means literally you may violate almost everything except, I think, three commandments of the heart, 613, - you may do anything, violate any commandment and the injunction simply to save a human life. And there are enough lives to be saved in - in Tibet.

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  Heart, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and partake of the wine of friendship; were they to remain locked in, they would forcibly break down the walls. It is they who force the writer to tell their stories.

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  Wall, Character, Writing

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• I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I want to leave science aside and go back to the pure perception offered to me in the text that is waiting there for me year after year.

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  Children, Years, Waiting

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

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  God, Talking, People

  "Messenger to Mankind". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

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  Children, Believe, Guilt

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

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• Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

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  War, Goal, Humanity

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.166, Schocken

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• We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

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  Secret, Immortality, Stills

  "Heart to Heart with Elie Wiesel". Interview with Nadine Epstein, www.momentmag.com. June 20, 2013.

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