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I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.
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If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?
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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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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
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The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.
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Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
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The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.
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When adults wage war, children perish.
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That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
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In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.
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