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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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Judaic Scholar
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Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
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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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Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.
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Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.
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I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?
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I am looking for the word which is there and shouldn't be there. I wonder, why is it there? Or I look for problems: the Akedah [the Binding of Isaac - Genesis 22]. It still baffles me. Each time I read it - and I read it at least twice a year - each time I discover new layers in it. Always. So this is of more concern to me than the minimalists.
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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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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
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Holy War is a contradiction of terms.
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I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.
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I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.
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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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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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The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.
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You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.
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For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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