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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing.
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Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
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Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.
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When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
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When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then when it's ready, I reread, recorrect, and retype it. Everything is my own work. I do not give it to secretaries or to typists.
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If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?
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The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.
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The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.
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I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.
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