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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.

Elie Wiesel 452 quotes

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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Humanity? Humanity is not con...

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

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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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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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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.

Elie Wiesel 452 quotes

Granted that every war is mad...

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

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[My approach to the Bible, hi...

[My approach to the Bible, history does really matter.] Everything matters. But I have priorities. For instance, for me to know whether there were two Isaiahs or one is less important than the text itself. Of course I read the arguments for and against. But it's not my task in life to say there were two or three authors of Isaiah's book, or how many authors there were of Deuteronomy. This is not what I'm doing.

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Naturally, the human being wa...

Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

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Some of the men spoke of God:...

Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.

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Memory is the keyword which c...

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

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The Biblical text does not ha...

The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.

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In Talmudic literature, certa...

In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.

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Every nation has its prestigi...

Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?

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And action is the only remedy...

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

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It always hurts when you lose...

It always hurts when you lose a secret.

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Writing should not be routine...

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

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In my town we studied the fiv...

In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves.

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I was 15, not 14, when I was ...

I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

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There is a coalition of anti-...

There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.

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