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When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.
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I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.
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Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
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I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.
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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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Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
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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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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!
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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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It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.
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Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
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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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Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
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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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When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'
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After all, God is God because he remembers.
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