“THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS NOT HATE, IT’S INDIFFERENCE. THE OPPOSITE OF ART IS NOT UGLINESS, IT’S INDIFFERENCE. THE OPPOSITE OF FAITH IS NOT HERESY, IT’S INDIFFERENCE. AND THE OPPOSITE OF LIFE IS NOT DEATH, IT’S INDIFFERENCE.” ---Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania.
I think it’s my third time reading Night. No matter how many times I read this book I will never comprehend how events like this could happen and continue to happen. In this short memoir Wiesel takes us through the horror and with few words paint a vivid picture of ‘life’ in the camp. The book is based on his experience as a young Jew, after he and his family were sent to Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
He took a ten-year vow of silence after which he wrote "Night". "The anger is in me—hate is not," he says.
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