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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Judaic Scholar
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'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.
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The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All over the world, especially in Europe, and it's true they begin with anti-Israeli attitudes and then it's so strong that it runs over and becomes anti-Semitic.
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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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The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.
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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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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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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.
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Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.
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