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Some stories are true that never happened.
Written by Elie Wiesel
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Written by Elie Wiesel
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Written by Elie Wiesel
I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
Written by Elie Wiesel
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Written by Elie Wiesel
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
Written by Elie Wiesel
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
Written by Elie Wiesel
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Written by Elie Wiesel
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
Written by Elie Wiesel
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
Written by Elie Wiesel
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Written by Elie Wiesel
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
Written by Elie Wiesel
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.
Written by Elie Wiesel
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Written by Elie Wiesel
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
Written by Elie Wiesel
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Written by Elie Wiesel
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
Written by Elie Wiesel
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Written by Elie Wiesel
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.
Written by Elie Wiesel
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
Written by Elie Wiesel
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
Written by Elie Wiesel
Peace is our gift to each other.
Written by Elie Wiesel
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
Written by Elie Wiesel
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Written by Elie Wiesel
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
Written by Elie Wiesel
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
Written by Elie Wiesel
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
Written by Elie Wiesel
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Written by Elie Wiesel
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
Written by Elie Wiesel
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.
Written by Elie Wiesel

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