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I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Judaic Scholar
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Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
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I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.
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I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.
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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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I was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray.
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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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I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
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every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain
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You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.
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I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.
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