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Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Humanity would never tolerate it
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I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!
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It always hurts when you lose a secret.
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What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.
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Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
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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....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.
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The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.
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I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
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No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.
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In the beginning there was faith - which is childish trust - which is vain and illusion - which is dangerous.
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If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?
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Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.
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Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.
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There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.
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Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.
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I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.
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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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My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.
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I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.
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