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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
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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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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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Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy virile hate - for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
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Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
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I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.
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I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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No human being is illegal.
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The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.
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Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.
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The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].
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Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.
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I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
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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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If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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