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" For me, every hour is grace. "
Elie Wiesel
Every
Grace
Hour
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" Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response. "
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" In Jewish history there are no coincidences. "
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" I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics. "
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" I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. "
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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. "
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" I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. "
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" When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. "
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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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" 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. "
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" You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens. "
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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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" I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine. "
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" I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language. "
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" Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. "
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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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" 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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" I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the Internet, I ask my secretary or students. I am lucky, because I have people who do it for me. "
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" If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope. "
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" The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough. "
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