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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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The Vietnam War ended because of the campus situation. And so many other injustices have been corrected in the World today only thanks to the young people. So, young people especially have a responsibility for Tibet.
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Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.
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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.
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Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing.
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I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.
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Some events do take place but are not true others are, although they never occurred.
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As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of the mythological, of an epic.
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.
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Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.
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Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.
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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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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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I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.
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We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.
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