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Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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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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Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.
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When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
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I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it.
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He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
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you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of the mythological, of an epic.
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I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.
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Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
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I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.
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I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.
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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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Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
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After all, God is God because he remembers.
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When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.
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All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.
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I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.
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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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