Elie Wiesel
Rumanian-born American Writer
Lived from: 1928 - 2016
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 30 september 1928 Died: 2 july 2016
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Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.
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Peace is our gift to each other.
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Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.
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Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.
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That is my major preoccupation -memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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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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Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.
A Jew Today (1978)― Elie Wiesel -
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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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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When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.
Arutz Sheva (17 April 2010)― Elie Wiesel -
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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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.
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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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Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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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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