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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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Judaic Scholar
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In the beginning there was faith - which is childish trust - which is vain and illusion - which is dangerous.
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Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
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Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.
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Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and partake of the wine of friendship were they to remain locked in, they would forcibly break down the walls. It is they who force the writer to tell their stories.
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Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of the most flagrant injustice. I still blush every time I think of the way God makes fun of human beings, his favorite toys.
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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.
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Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
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Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.
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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.
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It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.
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One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.
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It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
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If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.
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I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!
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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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Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.
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[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.
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