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Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
American Novelist
Born: Sep 30, 1928
Died: Jul 2, 2016
Bible God Life Me People You
Related authors: Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft Herman Melville James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful. Elie Wiesel
You Will Say Must Memoir Truthful Honest
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems. Elie Wiesel
God Alone Problems Enough He Leave Accountable Human Human Beings Held Should Beings
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. Elie Wiesel
Life Obligation Overcome Our Give Indifferent Doing Passive Meaning
In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die. Elie Wiesel
Universe Everyone Killer Had Concentration Came His Discovered Camps Die Where Place Victims Whole
For me, every hour is grace. Elie Wiesel
Me Grace Every Hour
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. Elie Wiesel
Knowledge You Philosophy Way Except Attain Mysticism Does Go Vertically Close While Mean Really Means
Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army. Elie Wiesel
Army First Liberation Moses Perhaps Greatest Commander Chief Legislator
Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response. Elie Wiesel
Sometimes Response Only Magnitude Know Answer Am Auschwitz Tragedy Asked Even
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. Elie Wiesel
God Faith Silence Religious About Having Wrote Course Answer Does Question Questioned Very Stopped Mean Night
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone. Elie Wiesel
Alone Solitude World Despair Would Look Am Were Choose Right
In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism. Elie Wiesel
Bible Wait Coffee Must Prophets Mysticism Instant Until Learned Talmud Tradition Lot Handle
It used to be said that when the Baal Shem Tov came into a town, his impact was so strong, he didn't have to speak. His disciples had to dance or to sing or to preach to have the same effect. I think a real messenger, myself or anyone, by the very fact that he is there as a person, as a symbol, could have the same impact. Elie Wiesel
Myself Speak Strong Dance Preach Think Impact Fact Could Had He Town Sing Messenger Disciples Said Real Came His Effect Very Person Same Anyone Used Symbol
It's clear to me that one can't be Jewish without Israel. Religious or non-religious, Zionist or non-Zionist, Ashkenazi or Sephardic - all these will not exist without Israel. Elie Wiesel
Me Will Religious Clear Without Israel Exist Zionist Jewish
The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. Elie Wiesel
Bible Laws Only Also Stories
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. Elie Wiesel
Happiness Love Great Bible About Write Talmud Subjects Commentary Celebration Wanted Eternal
For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share. Elie Wiesel
Whatever Believe Must Share Tradition Receive Jew
When I was young I lost everything. Elie Wiesel
Lost Young Everything
I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine. Elie Wiesel
Peace Living State Would See Alongside Like Real Israel Peacefully Palestine
One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious. Elie Wiesel
Family Beginning Back Religious Come Always Surrounding Very Goes Childhood In The Beginning
You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens. Elie Wiesel
You Doors Would Would-Be Nobel Nobel Prize Opens Amazed Prize Number
I never teach the same course twice. Elie Wiesel
Never Course Same Teach Twice
Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence. Elie Wiesel
Me Silence Language Failed Very Often Substitute Then Violence
Some stories are true that never happened. Elie Wiesel
Imagination Some Never True Stories Happened
I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They cannot mix. Elie Wiesel
Together Like Documentaries Go Mix Fiction Cannot Should Two
I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life. Elie Wiesel
Life My Life Self-Conscious Trying
After all, God is God because he remembers. Elie Wiesel
God He Remembers Because After
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