American - Novelist | September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Elie Wiesel
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
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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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Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
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Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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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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I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.
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Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.
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For me, every hour is grace.
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When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
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