Dawn by Elie Wiesel

Pg 68

“We say that ours is a holly war,” she went on, “that we’re struggling against something and for something against the English and for an independent Palestine.”

Pg 80I said that I wanted to go down before the

time was up, to see the fellow, and talk, and get to know him. It was cowardly, I said, to kill a complete stranger

Pg 69“I don’t want to be a killer,” I said, sliding

rapidly over the word as I ejected it.

“who does?” said llana.

Pg 84In an hour I shall kill him, I thought. And yet I

didn’t really believe it. This hour which separates me from murder will be longer than a lifetime.

Pg. 93“You hate me, don’t you?” I didn’t hate him

at all, but I wanted to hate him. That would have made it all very easy.

Pg. 94

A man hates his enemy because he hates his own hate. He says to himself: This fellow, my enemy, has made me capable of hate. I hate him not because he hates me, but because he arouses me to hate. John Dawson has made me a murderer, I said to myself. He has made me the murderer of John Dawson. He deserves my hate