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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

Elie Wiesel

Peace is our gift to each other.

Elie Wiesel

Some stories are true that never happened.

Elie Wiesel

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Elie Wiesel

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

Elie Wiesel

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

Elie Wiesel

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

Elie Wiesel

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

Elie Wiesel

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Elie Wiesel

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

Elie Wiesel