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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
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Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.
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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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I am looking for the word which is there and shouldn't be there. I wonder, why is it there? Or I look for problems: the Akedah [the Binding of Isaac - Genesis 22]. It still baffles me. Each time I read it - and I read it at least twice a year - each time I discover new layers in it. Always. So this is of more concern to me than the minimalists.
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If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
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[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.
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The whole community must be saved [in Tibet].
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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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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I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.
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When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then when it's ready, I reread, recorrect, and retype it. Everything is my own work. I do not give it to secretaries or to typists.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.
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