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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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But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
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Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.
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For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
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Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.
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I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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..you do not leave a library if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.
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I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.
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Some events do take place but are not true others are, although they never occurred.
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Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .
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I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say I hate you, it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.
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Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.
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The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.
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A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?” And the master of the good name said, “When you meet a person who poses as a master, ask him a question: whether he knows how to purify your thoughts. If he says that he knows, then he is a fake.
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After all, God is God because he remembers.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.
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