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We know, for instance, of The Book of the Wars of the Lord. It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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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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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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He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.
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I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.
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I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.
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You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.
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The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.
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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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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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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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All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to remember more - more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story. And no one can tell the story fully.
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A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.
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Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.
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When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.
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For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
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Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words
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My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.
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I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
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