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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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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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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?
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You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.
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My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.
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I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.
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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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I do not believe in collective guilt.
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My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.
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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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None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
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Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.
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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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It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.
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The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.
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..you do not leave a library if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.
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