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For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
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When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.
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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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As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of the mythological, of an epic.
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We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.
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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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You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.
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There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it's raining today and it's going to rain tomorrow and the next day, the next week and the next century.
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Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
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Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.
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A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.
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I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.
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One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.
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A voice behind me asked, Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now? and a voice within me answered: Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows.
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you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.
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