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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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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
Autobiographer
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Journalist
Judaic Scholar
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Philosopher
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Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.
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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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