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Elie Wiesel, KBE byl židovský prozaik, esejista, dramatik, filozof, humanista, politický aktivista a náboženský myslitel. V roce 1986 mu byla udělena Nobelova cena za mír.

✵ 30. září 1928 – 2. červenec 2016
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„Opakem lásky není nenávist, nýbrž lhostejnost.“

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

„Existují vítězství ducha. Někdy, i když prohráváš, vítězíš.“

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„Přátelství poznamenává život ještě hlouběji než láska. U lásky hrozí, že se zvrhne v posedlost, přátelství není nikdy nic jiného než sdílení.“

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„Musíme se vzbouřit proti bohům a říkat: "Chcete mi odepřít štěstí? Tak dobře, ukousnu si ho pořádné sousto!" To je tváří v tvář utrpení jediná platná odpověď.“

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“I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.”

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Elie Wiesel kniha Night

Zdroj: Night

“For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.”

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Elie Wiesel kniha Night

Zdroj: Night

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.”

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“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must at that moment become the center of the universe.”

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Nobel acceptance speech (1986)

“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”

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“They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions.”

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Elie Wiesel kniha Night

Misattributed <br class="br">Zdroj: Robert McAfee Brown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McAfee_Brown. Preface for the 25th anniversary edition of Night https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_%28book%29. Page v, Bantam Books paperback; 1982 reissue edition.

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

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Attributed in The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom (2011) edited by Diana Doroftei and Matthew Cross

“I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it…”

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Zdroj: Night

“Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.”

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Zdroj: The Judges

“… I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.”

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Zdroj: Night

“Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.”

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“No human being is illegal.”

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Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)

“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?”

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Zdroj: Night

“In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.”

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Zdroj: Night

“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.”

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“I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”

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Zdroj: Night

“[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer….
And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him.
I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.”

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Zdroj: Night

“Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.”

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Zdroj: Night

“I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.”

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