Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBEwas a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth30 September 1928
CountryUnited States of America
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every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .
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[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.
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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.
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Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.
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He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
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Questions outlive the answers.
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Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
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From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.
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I had a teacher that always told me, 'Don't promise, because if you promise, you must keep it.' I promised, so here I am.
believed listen witness
I always believed that to listen to a witness is to become a witness.
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He had so examined his past that he could no longer look at it with enough detachment to tell what was true and what wasn't,
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I am so in favor of being involved in other people's causes, other people's fights. If a people is oppressed, we must help those people free themselves.
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We are still here. And no matter what, we shall continue to be here to tell people so they can learn from our history.
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Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.