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

Elie Wiesel

Learning

Jewish

" 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. "

" I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction. "

" 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. "

" I never teach the same course twice. "

" 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. "

" Peace is our gift to each other. "

" I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful. "

" That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. "

" 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. "

Elie Wiesel

Two

Cannot

" I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine. "

Elie Wiesel

Israel

Living

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

" The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For me, every hour is grace. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. "

" You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens. "

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

Elie Wiesel

Beyond

Working

" When I was young I lost everything. "

" Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Elie Wiesel

World

Alone