Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 20

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• First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

  Elie Wiesel

  Strong, Risk, Firsts

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• I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.

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  Prayer, Father, Way

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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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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• I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

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  Please Me, Deeds, Good Deeds

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “Souls on Fire”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Biblical, Punctuation Marks, Doe

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?” And the master of the good name said, “When you meet a person who poses as a master, ask him a question: whether he knows how to purify your thoughts. If he says that he knows, then he is a fake.

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  Names, Fake, Masters

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• I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

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  Book, World, Firsts

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• 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.

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  Mean, Junk, Students

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)

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  Pain, Believe, Heart

  Elie Wiesel (1960). “Night”, Bantam

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• In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.

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  Dream, Talking, Literature

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I was never without a book in my hand.

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  Book, Hands

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

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  Book, Moses, Mendelssohn

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely.

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  Biblical, Criticism, Moses

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves.

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  Book, Towns, Sometimes

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source—if not the cause—of all our misfortune.

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  Eye, Men, Fire

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• From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.

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  Eye, Night, Mirrors

  Elie Wiesel, Harry J. Cargas (1993). “Telling the tale: a tribute to Elie Wiesel on the occasion of his 65th birthday : essays, reflections, and poems”, Time Being Press

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• Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to.

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  Thinking, Historical, Elements

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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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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• Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest somehow found it [2 Kings 22:8].

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  Kings, Book, Law

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Occasionally, I come to moments of anguish in the text.

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  Moments, Anguish

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too. And another one replaced it, and that one is no longer the original text. These are questions that perturb me much more than whether it's history or not history.

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  Book, Years, Law

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

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  Trying, Jewish Faith, Defining Moments

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]

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  Laughter, War, Book

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.

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  Night, Men, Numbers

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

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• Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

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  Writing, Order, Mad

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.4, Macmillan

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