Elie Wiesel

(34 votes)   Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

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(303 votes)   I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Elie Wiesel
1928-, Rumanian-born American Writer

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(93 votes)   I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how

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(84 votes)   Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

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1928-, Rumanian-born American Writer

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

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(82 votes)   Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

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(68 votes)   Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.

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1928-, Rumanian-born American Writer

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(55 votes)   I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

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1928-, Rumanian-born American Writer

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(54 votes)   When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

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(53 votes)   Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

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

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(35 votes)   I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

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(32 votes)   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.

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(20 votes)   A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

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(19 votes)   Peace is our gift to each other.

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