Tag: Elie Wiesel
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
Elie Wiesel
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Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
Elie Wiesel
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I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.
Elie Wiesel
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One always goes back to one’s childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.
Elie Wiesel
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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
Elie Wiesel
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After all, God is God because he remembers.
Elie Wiesel
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I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
Elie Wiesel
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What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It’s close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
Elie Wiesel
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Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
Elie Wiesel
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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.
Elie Wiesel