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• The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

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  Secret, Nostalgia, Deeper

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.8, Schocken

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• Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.

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  Jobs, Men, People

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.67, Macmillan

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• But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?

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  Religious, People, Evil

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.140, Schocken

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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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• Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

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  Men, Victim, Executioners

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.60, Schocken

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• The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

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  Sacrifice, Stories, Tradition

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical.

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  Determination, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Biblical, Punctuation Marks, Doe

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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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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• Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

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  Littles, Violin, Next

  Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.134, Penguin UK

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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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• I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

  Elie Wiesel

  Crosses, Professors, Frank

  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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• Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

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  Yesterday, Tomorrow, Silent

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

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• There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.

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  War, Israel, Generations

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac."

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  Christian, Sacrifice, Jew

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

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  Sacrifice, Thinking, Important Events

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

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  Men, Meaning Of Life, Life Is

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.54, Schocken

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• It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims

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  Holocaust, Victim, Jew

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “The Trial of God: (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)”, p.166, Schocken

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• All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense and knowledge, experience and imagination. His grateful readers will now wait for the next.

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  Grateful, Imagination, Waiting

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• If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

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  Teaching, Want, Awareness

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.

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  Memories, Book, Commitment

  "Building a Moral Society". Chamberlin Lecture at Lewis and Clark College, 1995.

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• No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

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  Danger, Liberation, Starving

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Hostage”, p.85, Knopf

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• It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

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  Book, Historical Novels, Captivity

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• Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.

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  Dream, Night, Dust

  Night ch. 3 (1960)

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