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"50 Elie Wiesel Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 30 September 1928. Died: 2 July 2016 | Writer | Activist |

For me, every hour is grace.

Every Grace Hour Me
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Friendship Love Risk Sharing
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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.

Being Come Despair Given
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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.

Fail Injustice May Must
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Some stories are true that never happened.
Happened Never Some Stories
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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

Betray Experience Transmit Not
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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.

Also Beings Deeds Desires
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I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
Book Home Jewish Recall
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In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

Coincidences History Jewish There
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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.

Beyond Despair Doing Else
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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.
Anger Been Closer Faith
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

Epitome Evil Indifference Me
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
Because Despair Duty I Remember
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A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Annihilation Destruction Man Only
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Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Creatures Each Gift God
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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.

Again Anyone Because Betray
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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

Even Lose Sometimes Soul
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Hate Indifference Love Love Is
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Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Actually Because Before Dies
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We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Encourages Helps Must Neutrality
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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.

Beginning Between Book Difference
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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.
Another Gift Give God
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.

I Write Much Understand Understood
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Peace is our gift to each other.

Each Gift Other Our
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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Attain Deeds Grace Moments
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Bring Changing Changing The World Life
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

Doing Give Indifferent Life
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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.

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

Collective Faith Human Human Race
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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.

Enrich Glorify Kingdom Major
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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.

Best Characteristic Desire Jewish
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That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

Abnormal Beautiful Beautiful Girls Girl
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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.

Came Camps Concentration Die
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When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

Gratitude Her His Humanity
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I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
Honest Memoir Must Say
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I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

Believe Endeavor Equipped I Believe
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Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Army Chief Commander First
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In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

Bible Coffee Handle Instant
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It's clear to me that one can't be Jewish without Israel. Religious or non-religious, Zionist or non-Zionist, Ashkenazi or Sephardic - all these will not exist without Israel.

Clear Exist Israel Jewish
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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.

Brings Christians Course Defend
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Accountable Alone Beings Enough
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When I was young I lost everything.

Everything Was Lost Young
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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.

Alone Am Choose Despair
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I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.
Life My Life Self-Conscious Trying
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For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

Believe I Believe I Believe That Jew
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After all, God is God because he remembers.

After Because God He
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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Civilization Culture Future Memory
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I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

Given Ideal Life Memory
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The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories.

Also Bible Laws Only
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No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

Dead Dreams Interpret May
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