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The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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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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Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that the religious community is being oppressed and persecuted is something that every single person in the world who has any religious faith and religious feeling for - for people who have faith should speak up.
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Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.
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I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
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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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I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.
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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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You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?
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I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.
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When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.
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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....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.
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If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
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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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You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.
Elie Wiesel
Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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It always hurts when you lose a secret.
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