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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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When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.
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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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every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .
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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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Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.
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Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.
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A man can laugh while he suffers.
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