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If there is a single theme th...

If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

Elie Wiesel 452 quotes

The term is piqua nevish [?] ...

The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others. It means literally you may violate almost everything except, I think, three commandments of the heart, 613, - you may do anything, violate any commandment and the injunction simply to save a human life. And there are enough lives to be saved in - in Tibet.

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Except if it has some histori...

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.

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I was the accuser, God the ac...

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

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Do you know what laughter is?...

Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

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Politicians, they give the vi...

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

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When I began teaching you har...

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

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I want to go back to the chil...

I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naivet? [the Pentateuch]. I want to leave science aside and go back to the pure perception offered to me in the text that is waiting there for me year after year.

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I say to myself, if the text ...

I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.

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One day - I remember it was a...

One day - I remember it was a Sabbath afternoon - I came to the synagogue with a book in my hand. I saw a commentary on the Bible by a certain Rabbi Moshe Dessauer, better known as Moses Mendelssohn. An elderly man came up to me - I was then maybe 10 or 12. "What are you studying?" he said. "Dessauer's commentaries," I said. So he gave me a slap on my face.

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I'm a privileged person, I fe...

I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and I teach and I go from university to university. I'm one of the old, but I still go around, but I only see those who are not like that, I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

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Acutely aware of the poverty ...

Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other verbs and other images. No, that wasn't it either. But what exactly was that it I was searching for? It must have been all that eludes us, hidden behind a veil so as not to be stolen, usurped and trivialized. Words seemed weak and pale.

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Today there isn't a universit...

Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.

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Humanity? Humanity is not con...

Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.

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We've sort of agreed that the...

We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.

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I come from a tradition - fro...

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

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Perhaps fate isn't blind afte...

Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

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I wrote my first book, I publ...

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

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I remember those faces of peo...

I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].

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Judaism is in a sense a Rabbi...

Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.

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