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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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There is no word in Hebrew for religion, by the way.
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Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.
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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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I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.
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I was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray.
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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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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 Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill all the Jews but he wanted us to have a Germany free of Jews. If America had allowed Jews to come in, the British had accepted Jews from Palestine, they were safe.
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No human being is illegal.
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Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .
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I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.
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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.
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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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The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.
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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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The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.
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