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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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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.
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There is no word in Hebrew for religion, by the way.
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There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to remember more - more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story. And no one can tell the story fully.
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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
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Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.
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Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.
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[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.
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[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.
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Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.
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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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Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.
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The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.
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Holy War is a contradiction of terms.
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The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.
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