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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.
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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 believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.
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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
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I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.
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I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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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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[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.
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My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.
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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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The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
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The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
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One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.
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We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.
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I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.
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The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it's raining today and it's going to rain tomorrow and the next day, the next week and the next century.
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I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say I hate you, it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.
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