Elie Wiesel

Night (Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition)

Emma Caughel

emphasize how strongly I fel that books, just like people, havea destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

Books no longer have the power they once did.b Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorro

Lauren Lipford

I only know that without this testimony, my life as a writer — or my life, period — would not have become what it is: that of a witness who believes he has a moral obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory.

Painfully aware of my limitations, I watched as language became an obstacle. It became clear that it would be necessary to invent a new language. But how was one to rehabilitate and transform words betrayed and perverted by the enemy? 

Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow. 

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. 

“Man asks and God replied. But we don’t understand His replies. We cannot understand them. Because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die. The real answers, Eliezer, you will find only within yourself.” 

The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion. 

In one terrifying moment of lucidity, I thought of us as damned souls wandering through the void, souls condemned to wander through space until the end of time, seeking redemption, seeking oblivion, without any hope of finding either. 

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