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Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.
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I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
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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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My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.
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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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I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal.
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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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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words Biblical criticism again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely.
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The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge.
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Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words
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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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I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.
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We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.
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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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God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
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