Elie Wiesel: "Gelap sekali. Aku hanya bisa mendengar biola, dan seolah...

"Gelap sekali. Aku hanya bisa mendengar biola, dan seolah-olah jiwa Juliek adalah busur. Dia memainkan hidupnya. Seluruh hidupnya meluncur di atas tali - harapan terakhirnya, masa lalunya yang hangus, masa depannya yang padam. Dia bermain karena dia tidak akan pernah bermain lagi ... Ketika aku terbangun, di siang hari, aku bisa melihat Juliek, di hadapanku, terpuruk, mati. Di dekatnya terbaring biola, hancur, terinjak-injak, mayat kecil yang aneh dan luar biasa."

--- Elie Wiesel

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Versi Bahasa Inggris

It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his last hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could see Juliek, opposite me, slumped over, dead. Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming little corpse.