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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“Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.” -Elie Wiesel
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“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
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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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“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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“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” -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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“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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“I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.” -Elie Wiesel
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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.” -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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“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.” -Elie Wiesel
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“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” -Elie Wiesel
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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.” -Elie Wiesel
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“Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.” -Elie Wiesel
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“No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.” -Elie Wiesel
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“Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.” -Elie Wiesel
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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.” -Elie Wiesel
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“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
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“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.” -Elie Wiesel
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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. – Elie Wiesel
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