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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

Elie Wiesel
Dream, Heart, Past
"Hope, Despair and Memory". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.

At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner acts as god, as judge-many wanted no part of it. It was its own heart the world incinerated at Auschwitz.

Elie Wiesel
Heart, Men, Ideas
Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.190, Schocken

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

Elie Wiesel
Heart, Mean, Broken
Elie Wiesel (1960). “Night”, Bantam

You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

Elie Wiesel
Reading, Heart, Mind
"Elie Wiesel on Passion". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

Elie Wiesel
Christian, Heart, Israel

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.

Elie Wiesel
Heart, Mean, Thinking
Source: www.savetibet.org

One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.

Elie Wiesel
Hate, Heart, Reason

But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)

Elie Wiesel
Pain, Believe, Heart
Elie Wiesel (1960). “Night”, Bantam

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.

Elie Wiesel
Heart, Islam, Today
Source: www.nobelprize.org

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