Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 16

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Past, Keywords

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Fate, Compassion, Fantasy

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

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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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Mean, Elude Us

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• Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Childhood, Age

  Elie Wiesel (1990). “From the kingdom of memory: reminiscences”, Pocket Books

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• Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Madness, Granted

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• Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Names, Doe

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.165, Schocken

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• The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.

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  Memories, Tombstone, Writing

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.10, Schocken

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• When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Knowledge, Rooms

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Names, People

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.165, Schocken

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• I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and I teach and I go from university to university. I'm one of the old, but I still go around, but I only see those who are not like that, I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Mean, Writing

  Interview with Professor Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

  Elie Wiesel

  Surprise, Auschwitz

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].

  Elie Wiesel

  Father, Son, People

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this, it's not true. I think it's not true. There are certain things human beings are not capable of. I mean people, even normal human beings. You have to do certain things in order to become what the enemy was and I didn't accept her philosophical outlook on that.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Philosophical, Mean

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• [Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory.

  Elie Wiesel

  Want, Theory, Jew

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teaching, College, America

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• That [Exodus] occurred, I have no doubt.

  Elie Wiesel

  Doubt, Exodus, No Doubt

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me.

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Historical, Proof

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Epic, Yams, Quality

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Students, Concerned, Findings

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

  Elie Wiesel

  Anchors, Roots, People

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.

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  Children, Hungry, Humiliated

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second World War]. I never compare.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Stupid, Arrogant

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, French Culture, Feels

  "Fresh Air Remembers Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Peace Laureate". "Fresh Air" With David Bianculli, www.npr.org. July 8, 2016.

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• I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Communication, Jewish Tradition

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge.

  Elie Wiesel

  Holocaust, Tragedy, Wish

  Source: www.npr.org

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