Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 14

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• In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Worst Enemy, Differences, Humanity

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• We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

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  Loneliness, Break Through, Bridges

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• There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great scholar, if only I could retain everything I've learned from those I have known. But then would I still be me? And isn't all that only words? Words grow old, too; they change their meaning and their usage. They get sick just as we do; they die of their wounds and then they are relegated to the dust of dictionaries. And where am I in all this?

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  Dust, Sick, Would Be

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Time of the Uprooted: A Novel”, p.17, Schocken

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• Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

  Elie Wiesel

  Stories, Historic, Concerned

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.

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  Morning, Writing, Up Early

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.

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  Lonely, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.

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  Hate, Heart, Reason

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• You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

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  Suffering, Mountain, May

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Hostage”, p.155, Knopf

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• Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.

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  Holocaust, Events, World

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• No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

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  Gratitude, Night, Thankfulness

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• "Am I my brother's keeper?" There you have the whole Biblical understanding that you are your brother's keeper. You also have a whole other understanding in which you are not your brother's keeper. And I've heard some extremely bright people take this position.

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  Brother, Biblical, People

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• For the purpose of my life, I don't ask the question. First of all, I believe. I think the Five Books of Moses are inspired. Call it divine. I don't know. But I would certainly call it inspired.

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  Believe, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.

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  Hands, Accomplices, Can Do

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• You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Years, Long

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• I imagine, like all his predecessors, Barak Obama would like to achieve greatness in bringing peace in the Middle East. I hope it will not be at the expense of Israel.

  Elie Wiesel

  Greatness, Israel, Middle East

  Source: www.algemeiner.com

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• Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing.

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  Believe, Blessing, Life Is

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of the most flagrant injustice. I still blush every time I think of the way God makes fun of human beings, his favorite toys.

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  Fun, Thinking, Men

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Day: A Novel”, p.34, Macmillan

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• The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.

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  Morning, Stars, Children

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

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• It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

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  War, Years, Parent

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Dawn: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

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  Dream, Night, Thinking

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Dawn: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

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• The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.

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  Shoes, Holocaust, Entering

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

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  Adventure, Swings, Stories

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• God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

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  Thought Provoking, Stories, Love Story

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• This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

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  Strong, Accused, Contrary

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

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• In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four.

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  Real, Age, Four

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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