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Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering not to share them would mean to betray them.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
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I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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Yet another last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the train, and, now, the last night in Buna. How much longer were our lives to be dragged out from one 'last night' to another?
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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.
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I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
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I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.
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Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself
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I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.
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The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.
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My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.
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