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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.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
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What I do, I want to do with all my being.
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The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.
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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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My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.
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None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.
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Yet another last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the train, and, now, the last night in Buna. How much longer were our lives to be dragged out from one 'last night' to another?
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Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All over the world, especially in Europe, and it's true they begin with anti-Israeli attitudes and then it's so strong that it runs over and becomes anti-Semitic.
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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 had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say I hate you, it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.
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The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.
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I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).
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How can a human being be illegal?
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Writing should not be routine writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.
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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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It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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