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• I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

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  Religious, Mean, Night

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• In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

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  Killers, Victim, Concentration

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• No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

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  Dream, Vision, May

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.140, Macmillan

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• The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life...He played that which he would never play again.

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  Play, Soul, Darkness

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• My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” I exploded: “What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? 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, Marion Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.

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  Prayer, Men, People

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.54, Macmillan

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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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• Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.

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  Answers, Found, Wells

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.69, Schocken

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• In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

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  Dark, Rose, Humanity

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• For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

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  Powerful, Love And Friendship, Brutality

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Hostage”, p.192, Knopf

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• I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

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  Joy, Needed, Knows

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Dawn: A Novel”, p.18, Macmillan

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• One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

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  Thought Provoking, May, Matter

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• I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

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  Eye, Men, Thought Provoking

  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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• Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

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  Self, Solitude, Despair

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• I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.

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  Stories, Importance, Wanted

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• The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

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  Christian, People, Holocaust

  Harry J. Cargas, Elie Wiesel (1976). “Harry James Cargas in Conversation with Elie Wiesel”

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• I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

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  Holocaust, May, Incidents

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.33, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My loyalty to my people, to our people, and to Israel comes first and prevents me from saying anything critical of Israel outside Israel… As a Jew I see my role as a melitz yosher, a defender of Israel: I defend even her mistakes… I must identify with whatever Israel does – even with her errors.

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  Loyalty, Mistake, Errors

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• The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

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  Opposites, I Hate My Life, Apathy

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• It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments' involvement in the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens. I found it outrageous that the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly could participate in a ceremony honoring a Hungarian fascist ideologue

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  Past, Government, Criminals

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• The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.

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  Christian, Impact, Holocaust

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.5, Schocken

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• Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

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  Laughter, Mistake, Men

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• Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .

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  Discovery, Cities, Paris

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “The Testament: A novel”, p.168, Schocken

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• It always hurts when you lose a secret.

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  Hurt, Secret, Loses

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “The Testament”, p.223, Souvenir Press

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• My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

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  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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

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