Elie Wiesel Quotes

• 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.

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• We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

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• There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don’t see them.

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• There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

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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.

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• Peace is our gift to each other.

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• Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

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• Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

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• No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

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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.

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• Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

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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.

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• Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

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• In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

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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.

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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.

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• Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

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• A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

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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.

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• For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.

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Elie Wiesel (40)

Birth:	30th September, 1928
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Novelist, Professor

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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was born in Sighet, Maramureș, Kingdom of Romania. He is a Romanian-born American novelist, professor, political activist, and Nobel Laureate. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, and later founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity with his wife Marion Wiesel. He has a revered international activist, orator and figure of peace over the years, speaking out against injustices perpetrated in an array of countries, including South Africa, Bosnia, Cambodia and Rwanda. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps. He went on to write dozens of books, including the novels Town of Luck, The Gates of the Forest and The Oath, and such nonfiction works as Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters and the memoir All Rivers Run to the Sea. He appointed in the mid-1970s as Boston University's Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities. He has also taught Judaic studies at the City University of New York, and served as a visiting scholar at Yale.

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