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Tell Quotes by Elie Wiesel
- Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one…
- I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still…
- Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and…
- 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…
- The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory…
- I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children. And tell them,…
- I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
- Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
- Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no…
- The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other,…
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- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
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- 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' — Wystan Hugh Auden