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Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
Autobiographer
Humanist
Journalist
Judaic Scholar
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Philosopher
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You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.
Elie Wiesel
I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.
Elie Wiesel
In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.
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I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
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The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
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I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.
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I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.
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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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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
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It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.
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every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .
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I would say to [Chinese government], You don't need Tibet really. You don't need all the problems Tibet creates for you. It's so small, so far away. Give them their religious freedom and I know that they wouldn't misuse it.
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A word is worth a thousand pictures.
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