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Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and partake of the wine of friendship were they to remain locked in, they would forcibly break down the walls. It is they who force the writer to tell their stories.
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And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Holy War is a contradiction of terms.
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The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.
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We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.
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Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
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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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What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?
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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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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .
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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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There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
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Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.
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Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.
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The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.
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I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?
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