Tag: Elie Wiesel
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In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn’t instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
Elie Wiesel
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That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
Elie Wiesel
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Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Elie Wiesel
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For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.
Elie Wiesel
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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Elie Wiesel
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I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the Internet, I ask my secretary or students. I am lucky, because I have people who do it for me.
Elie Wiesel
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For me, every hour is grace.
Elie Wiesel
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In any society, fanatics who hate don’t hate only me – they hate you, too. They hate everybody.
Elie Wiesel
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When I was young I lost everything.
Elie Wiesel
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No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
Elie Wiesel