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  1. Elie Wiesel _ Night

    YOM KIPPUR. The Day of Atonement. Should we fast? The question was hotly debated. To fast could mean a more certain, more rapid death. In this place, we were always fasting. It was Yom Kippur year-round. But there were those who said we should fast, precisely because it was dangerous to do so. We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, we were capable of singing His praises. I
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  2. Elie Wiesel _ Night

    My hands were aching, I was clenching them so hard. To strangle the doctor and the others! To set the whole world on fire! My father's murderers! But even the cry stuck in my throat.
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  3. Elie Wiesel _ Night

    Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!" the Hungarian police were screaming.That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors. They were the first faces of hell and death.
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  4. Elie Wiesel _ Night

    This was it; the end of the road. A silent death, suffocation. No way to scream, to call for help.
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  5. Elie Wiesel _ Night

    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. At
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  6. Elie Wiesel _ Night

    The gates of the camp opened. It seemed as though an even darker night was waiting for us on the other side. The
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  7. Elie Wiesel _ Night

    His eyes would suddenly go blank, leaving two gaping wounds, two wells of terror."
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  8. Elie Wiesel _ Night

    Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.
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  9. Elie Wiesel _ Night

    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 madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind?
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  10. Elie Wiesel _ Night

    Both the Jewish people and the Palestinian people have lost too many sons and daughters and have shed too much blood. This must stop, and all attempts to stop it must be encouraged.
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  11. Elie Wiesel _ Night

    In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone.
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  12. Elie Wiesel _ Night

    I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but with Death itself, with Death that he had already chosen.
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