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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
Autobiographer
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Judaic Scholar
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Philosopher
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There is no word in Hebrew for religion, by the way.
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There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.
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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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Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.
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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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The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.
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I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.
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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
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If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too. And another one replaced it, and that one is no longer the original text. These are questions that perturb me much more than whether it's history or not history.
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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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Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me.
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I do not believe in collective guilt.
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No human being is illegal.
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Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and partake of the wine of friendship were they to remain locked in, they would forcibly break down the walls. It is they who force the writer to tell their stories.
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I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
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I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all.
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