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The opposite of faith is not heresy but 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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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
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No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.
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A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?” And the master of the good name said, “When you meet a person who poses as a master, ask him a question: whether he knows how to purify your thoughts. If he says that he knows, then he is a fake.
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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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I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].
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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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Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.
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My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.
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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.
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It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
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I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.
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What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?
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Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
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Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy virile hate - for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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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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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
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You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.
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For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
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The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.
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