# Quote — Elie Wiesel, Night

> Most people thought we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward everything would be as before. The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.

- Author: [Elie Wiesel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel.md)
- Book: [Night](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel#Night_(1960)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
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## More from this book

> "Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba...May His name be celebrated and sanctified..." whispered my father.
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> For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night/yisgadal-veyiskadash-shmey.md)

> Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.
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> Never shall I forget that smoke.
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> Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.
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> Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.
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> Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
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> Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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> Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.
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> Never.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night/never-shall-i-forget.md)

> One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto.
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> From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me.
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> The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

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