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"From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me." pg. 115

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"I knew I was no longer arguing with him, but with Death itself."pg. 105

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"To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."

"I am not so naive 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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"And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believed.

'Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu's son has done.'"

(Wiesel pg. 91)

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page 38

“I thanked God, in an improvised prayer, for having created mud in His infinite and wondrous universe.”

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" The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria....." pg 33

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" Yes, my mother did hear from them. Reizel is fine. So are the children..." pg

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"the idea of dying, of ceasing to be, it began to fascinate me" page 86

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"Every bomb that hit filled us with joy, gave us renewed confidence." (60)

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Page 115

"The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me."

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"Suddenly, the silence became more oppressive.  An SS officer had come in and, with him, the smell of the Angel of Death.”

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And I, the former mystic, was thinking: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God.  When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from paradise.  When You were displeased by Noah’s generation, You brought down the Flood.  When Sodom lost Your favor, You caused the heavens to rain down fire and damnation.  But look at these men whom You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do?  They pray before You! They praise your name.
pg: 68

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"Moishe was not the same.  The joy in his eyes was gone.  He no longer sang. He no longer mentioned either God or Kabbalah.  He spoke only of what he had seen.  But people no only refused to believe his tales, the refused to to listen."

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'I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people" pg 81

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“All that was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had been invaded -and devoured- by a black flame.” page 37

“We were the masters of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended everything - death, fatigue, our natural needs. We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth.” page 87

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“He had felt his father growing weaker and, believing that the end was near, had thought by this separation to free himself of a burden that could diminish his own chance for survival” (Elie, 91).

“Her son was clinging desperately to her, not uttering a word. He was no longer crying” (Wiesel,26).

On the way, we saw some young German girls. The guards began to tease them. The girls giggled. They allowed themselves to be kissed and tickled, bursting with laughter. They all were laughing, joking, and passing love notes to one another. (46)

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”The only thing that keeps me alive,” he kept saying, “is to know that Reizel and the little ones are still alive. Were it not for them, I would give up.”

pg. 45

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"'...let there be camaraderie among you. We are all brothers and share the same fate. The same smoke hovers over all our heads. Help eachother. That is the only way to survive. And now, enough said, you are tired. Listen: you are in Block 17; I am responsible for keeping order here. Anyone with a complaint may come see me. That is all. Go to sleep. Two people to a bunk. Good night.'

Those were the first human words."

(Wiesel pg. 41)

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"The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin, and it was as if Juliek's soul had become his bow. He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future. He played that which he would never play again." 95

"I did not fast. First of all, to please my father who had forbidden me to do so. And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God's silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him. And I nibbled on my crust of bread. Deep inside me, I felt a great void opening." 69

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I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me.

pg 115

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

pg. 12

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¨That was when I began to hate them and my hatred remains our only link today." pg 19

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Page Number: 62-65

Quotation: (after the young boy from Warsaw was hanged) I remember that on that evening, the soup tasted better than ever… (after the three prisoners were hanged) That night, the soup tasted of corpses.

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"That night the soup tasted of corpses"65

"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" 36

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“I have more faith in HItler that in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.” 81

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"There followed terrible days. We received more blows than food. The work was crushing. And three days after he left, we forgot to say Kaddish." pg. 77

"Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse." pg. 95

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"A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes...children thrown into the flames." (32)

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“They ordered us to run. We began to run. Who would have thought that we were so strong? From behind their windows, from behind their shutters, our fellow citizens watched as we passed” pg 19

“A crowd of workmen and curious passersby had formed all along the train. They had undoubtedly never seen a train with this kind of cargo. Soon, pieces of bread were falling into the wagons from all sides. And the spectators observed these emaciated creatures ready to kill for a crust of bread.” pg 101