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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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When adults wage war, children perish.
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You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.
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The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.
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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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.
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Whenever an angel says Be not afraid! you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
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There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
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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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'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.
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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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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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every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.
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I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.
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You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.
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Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.
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