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Elie Wiesel Quotes

Elie Wiesel quotes about understanding

American Novelist, Journalist September 30, 1928

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In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my writings after night, including those that deal with biblical, Talmudic, or Hasidic themes, profoundly bear it's stamp, and cannot be understood if one has not read this very first of my works. Why did I write it? Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of the madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in... Elie Wiesel
There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great scholar, if only I could retain everything I've learned from those I have known. But then would I still be me? And isn't all that only words? Words grow old, too; they change their meaning and their usage. They get sick just as we do; they die of their wounds and then they are relegated to the dust of dictionaries. And where am I in all this? Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel quote: "Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go..."
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness? Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel quote: "I write to understand as much as to be understood."
I write to understand as much as to be understood. Elie Wiesel
Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners. Elie Wiesel

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