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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.
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I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.
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He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
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My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.
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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 was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.
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Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
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[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.
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Some events do take place but are not true others are, although they never occurred.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.
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I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.
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Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.
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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.
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Holy War is a contradiction of terms.
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