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Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

Elie Wiesel
War, Names, Doe
Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.165, Schocken

I would hesitate to give advice to the Dalai Lama and his people because they are suffering. The Dalai Lama suffered from exile and the people in Tibet suffer from oppression.

Elie Wiesel
People, Giving, Advice
Source: www.savetibet.org

A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."

Elie Wiesel
Voice, Atheism, Gallows
Elie Wiesel (1985). “Night ; Dawn ; Day”, Jason Aronson

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 of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.

Elie Wiesel
Memories, Tombstone, Writing
Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.10, Schocken

It always hurts when you lose a secret.

Elie Wiesel
Hurt, Secret, Loses
Elie Wiesel (2013). “The Testament”, p.223, Souvenir Press

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

Elie Wiesel
War, Madness, Granted

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.

Elie Wiesel
Jobs, Men, People
Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.67, Macmillan

I am looking for the word which is there and shouldn't be there. I wonder, why is it there? Or I look for problems: the Akedah [the Binding of Isaac - Genesis 22]. It still baffles me. Each time I read it - and I read it at least twice a year - each time I discover new layers in it. Always. So this is of more concern to me than the minimalists.

Elie Wiesel
Years, Looks, Layers
Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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