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.
Elie Wiesel
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When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday. -
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More quotes by Elie Wiesel
- Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
- 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.
- I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
- I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
- It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.