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All Quotes by author - Elie Wiesel

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

" After all, God is God because he remembers. "

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

" Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. "

" For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share. "

" For me, every hour is grace. "

" For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile. "

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

" Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning. "

" Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. "

" Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems. "

" I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. "

" I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics. "

" I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They cannot mix. "

" If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am. "

" 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. "

" I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. "

" I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life. "

" I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. "

" I love teaching. "

" 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. "

" I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it. "

" In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody. "

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

" I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language. "

" I never teach the same course twice. "

" In Jewish history there are no coincidences. "

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