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Time Quotes by Elie Wiesel

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A veil lifted in a quiet moment can turn confusion into clarity. Elie Wiesel writes that memory ties past, present, and future together, and that waiting for a defining moment can feel like a night that stretches forever. He also shows how even simple meals can remind us that time passes inside our bodies.

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I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

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What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

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The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

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And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.

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Every moment is a new beginning.

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Occasionally, I come to moments of anguish in the text.

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I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

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Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

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A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

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

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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

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For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at…

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I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the…

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Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish…

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Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

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Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach…

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It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our…

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[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world,…

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“Some of life's moments mark a break in consciousness; others give rise to streams of scintillating, philosophical ideas or astonishing works of…

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“Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I…

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Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment -…

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I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness…

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I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably…

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I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so…

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“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to…

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There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain,…

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Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times…

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The Tibetan religion has a past. And furthermore it has such an appeal. There again young people today are drawn to Buddhism…

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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment…

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It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was…

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I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while…

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In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the…

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“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.…

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“--"And then I explained to him how naive we were, that the world did know and remained silent. And that is why…

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“Why do you pray?" he asked me, after a moment. Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why…

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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that…

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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to…

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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

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every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .

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His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has…

As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of…

Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and for what…

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