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Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

Elie Wiesel
Wall, Suffering, Cry
Elie Wiesel (2006). “Day: A Novel”, p.96, Macmillan

One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

Elie Wiesel
Wall, Ghetto, Eye
Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.139, Macmillan

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

Elie Wiesel
Wall, Civilization, Magic

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 partake of the wine of friendship; were they to remain locked in, they would forcibly break down the walls. It is they who force the writer to tell their stories.

Elie Wiesel
Wall, Character, Writing

The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for the Holocaust in the Vatican, going to the synagogue in Vatican, and that happens in Protestant service as well. That doesn't mean that anti-Semitism disappear, but it is on certain level that Jews all the time, or with Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, meeting all the time, studying together, signing petitions for all kinds of causes.

Elie Wiesel
Christian, Wall, Mean
Source: www.nobelprize.org

If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of the story in the later Priestly source, it is more miraculous: The water stands up on either side like a wall. There are walls of water standing up. As you move back in time, oddly enough, the story becomes more historical.

Elie Wiesel
Wall, Moving, Sea
Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Elie Wiesel
Wall, Knowledge, Rooms
Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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