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That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.
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God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
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They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)
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Writing should not be routine writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.
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When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.
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We know, for instance, of The Book of the Wars of the Lord. It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]
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My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.
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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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He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
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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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Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.
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For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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I do not believe in collective guilt.
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The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.
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A man can laugh while he suffers.
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It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.
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