yesterday i read elie wiesel's novella Night. it briefly recounts his experience as a 15-year-old living out the Holocaust. yeah... living it out. The Holocaust. It's amazing..... amazing in the worst kind of way because you just... the whole time you just can't believe it ever really happened. can't believe that people could and still can consciously cause that extent of human suffering. what allows for that?? what? what goes wrong that makes wrong seem right to these people? it makes me wary... very wary of what i believe to be right ...
I've been wrong many times before, but sometimes I get so giddy about changing my ways from something wrong that I forget that just because my previous way of thinking was wrong, doesn't mean my current thoughts are right.
This quote is a bit harrowing... I can't decide what I think of it yet, only that it's perhaps one of the most powerful statements I've ever read:
“I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.”
– said to Wiesel by a dying Hungarian Jew, wearily... stating a fact, no longer caring about opinions..., p.81, Night
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