Elie Wiesel Short Quotes

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If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.

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Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?

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The yellow star?
Oh well, what of it?
You don't die of it.

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Every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer...

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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

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Every book that I have written corresponds to a certain immediacy.

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Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.

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The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.

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What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?

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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

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Words grow, age, die, and I am still interested in that metamorphosis.

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Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

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Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.

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You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

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Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.

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Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

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God of forgiveness, do not forgive those murderers of Jewish children here.
At Auschwitz

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I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

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One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.

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It is true that not all the victims were Jews. But all the Jews were victims.

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Some writings could sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

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And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

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

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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.

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They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.

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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

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It's up to you now, and we shall help you - that my past does not become your future.

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If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

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You shouldn't act as a spokesperson for someone who's trying to impose his will on you.

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