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The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you. (Elie Wiesel)
Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, ... The hater has power. ... All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice. View quote
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God made (human beings) because he loves stories. View quote
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It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse. View quote
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I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life. View quote
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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. View quote
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No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. View quote
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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. (Elie Wiesel)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response. View quote
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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. View quote
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Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price. View quote
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An immoral society betrays humanity because it betrays the basis for humanity, which is memory. View quote
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You must intervene. You must interfere. And that is actually the motto of human rights. View quote
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As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. View quote
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My commandment is ‘Thou shall not stand idly by.' View quote
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If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough. (Elie Wiesel)
Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not. View quote
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... I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. View quote
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In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth. View quote
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A moral society is committed to memory: I believe in memory. The Greek word alethia means Truth, Things that cannot be forgotten. I believe in those things that cannot be forgotten and because of that so much in my work deals with memory... What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory. View quote
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