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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting.
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We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t
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Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
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I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.
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Some events do take place but are not true others are, although they never occurred.
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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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I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.
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[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.
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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.
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My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.
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For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
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What I do, I want to do with all my being.
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A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.
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every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .
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I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.
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