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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself
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I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.
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For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
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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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Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go dictatorship, not to go racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].
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Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
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The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.
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Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and partake of the wine of friendship were they to remain locked in, they would forcibly break down the walls. It is they who force the writer to tell their stories.
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If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical.
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I would say to [Chinese government], You don't need Tibet really. You don't need all the problems Tibet creates for you. It's so small, so far away. Give them their religious freedom and I know that they wouldn't misuse it.
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For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no doubt of their existence.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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