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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
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Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.
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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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Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.
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I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).
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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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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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I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.
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did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.
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Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
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When adults wage war, children perish.
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What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?
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Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.
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Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
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I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.
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