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1. "There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. 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, their quests. And so are you." ~ Elie Wiesel
2. "Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not." ~ Elie Wiesel
3. "Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?" ~ Elie Wiesel
4. "Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out,swollen and bluish. But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing...And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes.And we were forced to look at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was stillred, his eyes not yet extinguished.Behind me, I heard the same man asking:"For God's sake, where is God?"And from within me, I heard a voice answer:"Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows..."That night, the soup tasted of corpses." ~ Elie Wiesel
5. "There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win." ~ Elie Wiesel
6. "I don't want my past to become anyone else's future." ~ Elie Wiesel
7. "There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." ~ Elie Wiesel
8. "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." ~ Elie Wiesel
9. "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." ~ Elie Wiesel
10. "The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes." ~ Elie Wiesel
11. "War is like night, she said. It covers everything." ~ Elie Wiesel
12. "Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing." ~ Elie Wiesel
13. "No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them." ~ Elie Wiesel
14. "When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity." ~ Elie Wiesel
15. "Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another." ~ Elie Wiesel
16. "Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems." ~ Elie Wiesel
17. "In Jewish history there are no coincidences." ~ Elie Wiesel
18. "I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory." ~ Elie Wiesel
19. "Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words" ~ Elie Wiesel
20. "We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children, between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves. Or not." ~ Elie Wiesel
21. "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.Never shall I forget that smoke.Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.Never." ~ Elie Wiesel
22. "We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)" ~ Elie Wiesel
23. "Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else's death." ~ Elie Wiesel
24. "Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him." ~ Elie Wiesel
25. "Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty." ~ Elie Wiesel
26. "I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both." ~ Elie Wiesel
27. "Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all." ~ Elie Wiesel
28. "But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)" ~ Elie Wiesel
29. "What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedome depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs." ~ Elie Wiesel
30. "Questions outlive the answers." ~ Elie Wiesel
31. "Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait..." ~ Elie Wiesel
32. "Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even you father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be getting his rations..." ~ Elie Wiesel
33. "And I, the for­mer mys­tic, was think­ing: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve de­ceived You, You chased them from par­adise. When You were dis­pleased by Noah's generation, You brought down the Flood. When Sodom lost Your fa­vour, You caused the heav­ens to rain down fire and damna­tion. But look at these men whom You have be­trayed, al­low­ing them to be tortured, slaugh­tered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray be­fore You! They praise Your name!" ~ Elie Wiesel
34. "The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other." ~ Elie Wiesel
35. "True enemies aren't always the ones who hate each other." ~ Elie Wiesel
36. "I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be." ~ Elie Wiesel
37. "The Red Army is advancing with giant strides . . . Hitler will not be able to harm us, even if he wants to . . ." ~ Elie Wiesel
38. "Some of life's moments mark a break in consciousness; others give rise to streams of scintillating, philosophical ideas or astonishing works of art; still others, to important meeting or profound personal upheavals." ~ Elie Wiesel
39. "Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers." ~ Elie Wiesel
40. "Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write." ~ Elie Wiesel
41. "Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of the most flagrant injustice. I still blush every time I think of the way God makes fun of human beings, his favorite toys." ~ Elie Wiesel
42. "Are you forgetting that losing a game is an error or a lesson, but losing one's time is a sin?" ~ Elie Wiesel
43. "Never again" becomes more than a slogan: It's a prayer, a promise, a vow. There will never again be hatred, people say. Never again jail and torture. Never again the suffering of innocent people, or the shooting of starving, frightened, terrified children. And never again the glorification of base, ugly, dark violence. It's a prayer." ~ Elie Wiesel
44. "The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria..." ~ Elie Wiesel
45. "So many crazed men, so many cries, so much bestial brutality." ~ Elie Wiesel
46. "No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death." ~ Elie Wiesel
47. "Musíme se vzbourit proti bohum a ríkat: "Chcete mi odeprít štestí? Tak dobre, ukousnu si ho porádné sousto!" To je tvárí v tvár utrpení jediná platná odpoved." ~ Elie Wiesel
48. "There is no discussing theology, sociology and politics when someone is under the spell of a self-enclosed totalitarian ideology. Intentionally or out of ignorance, Ahmed, who is empirical in all matters, detests pointless and laborious philosophical imaginings, never-ending discussions, or clashes of ideas that might be respectful of non-believer opponents and sinners deserving only of complete contempt." ~ Elie Wiesel
49. "Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse." ~ Elie Wiesel
50. "In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human." ~ Elie Wiesel
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