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If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.
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Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.
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The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.
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Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.
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We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.
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The whole community must be saved [in Tibet].
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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.
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Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
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I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.
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Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events.
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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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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.
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People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.
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It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference
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every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .
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