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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.
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[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.
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There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
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I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.
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If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical.
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My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.
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The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.
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I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?
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[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.
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I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.
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Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.
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I do not believe in collective guilt.
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I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.
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Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.
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For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
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