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Name:
Elie Wiesel
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56
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American
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Holocaust
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Humanity
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Beings
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On Writing
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best
(1)
Time
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Friend
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Religion
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Dream
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Beings
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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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Society
360
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War is like night she said. It covers everything.
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Night
255
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They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. Brown vvi
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Humanity
215
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In the beginning there was faith which is childish trust which is vain and illusion which is dangerous.
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Trust
203
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Indifference to me is the epitome of all evil.
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Evil
167
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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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Faith
165
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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.
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car
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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alone
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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Epitome
136
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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
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Sometimes
131
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Bread soup these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
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Hunger
129
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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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death
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A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
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Annihilation
125
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
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Love
122
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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
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Genocide
117
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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.
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Anger
117
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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Friend
116
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Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
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Apathy
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In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
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History
110
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I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age that humanity would never tolerate it . . .
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Holocaust
108
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The world The world is not interested in us. Today everything is possible even the crematoria...
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Holocaust
99
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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.
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Time
95
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Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
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Authors
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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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Peace
90
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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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best
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We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. pg. 39
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Humanity
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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.
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God
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Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
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Survival
86
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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
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Experience
85
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We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Activism
84
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Despair
83
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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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Death
78
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Understanding
77
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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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Beings
76
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Ultimately the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Power
75
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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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Life
75
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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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Peace
74
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Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
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Death
73
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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.
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Car
71
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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.
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Religion
71
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I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
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Home
69
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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.
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Faith
67
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Some stories are true that never happened.
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Imagination
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Peace is our gift to each other.
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Peace
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Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
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History
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No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
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Dream
59
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No human being is illegal.
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Spiritual
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He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
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Questions
56
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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.
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Hope
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