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For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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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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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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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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I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.
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Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.
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I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].
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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
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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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Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.
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For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.
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Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.
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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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People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.
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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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A voice behind me asked, Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now? and a voice within me answered: Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows.
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Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.
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The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Some events do take place but are not true others are, although they never occurred.
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The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.
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