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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. "

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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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Beauty

Hope

" Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. "

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

" Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments. "

Elie Wiesel

Moments

Good

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

" When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from. "

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

Elie Wiesel

Evil

Indifference

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

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Israel

Living

" Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself. "

Elie Wiesel

End

Will

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

" 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. "

" Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence. "

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Violence

Language

" I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. "

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

" 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'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. "

Elie Wiesel

Teacher

Words

" The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. "

" 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. "

" Peace is our gift to each other. "

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

" Some stories are true that never happened. "

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

" 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. "

" One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious. "

" My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed. "

" 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

" 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. "

" Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. "

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