Tag: Elie Wiesel
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When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It’s still the pull of my childhood, a fascination with the vanished world, and I can find everything except that world.
Elie Wiesel
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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
Elie Wiesel
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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.
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I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.
Elie Wiesel
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I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.
Elie Wiesel
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Elie Wiesel
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I believe in superstitions. You don’t talk about a child who hasn’t been born.
Elie Wiesel
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
Elie Wiesel
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I don’t know much about politics, and I don’t want to know. That’s why I rarely involve myself in politics.
Elie Wiesel