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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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" 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. "

Elie Wiesel

Heaven

Words

Beginning

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

Elie Wiesel

Israel

Living

" In Jewish history there are no coincidences. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

" Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe. "

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

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

Elie Wiesel

Violence

Language

" I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. "

" 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. "

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

" Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. "

" Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 never teach the same course twice. "

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

Elie Wiesel

Evil

Indifference

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

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

Elie Wiesel

End

Will

" 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 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. "