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..you do not leave a library if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Yet another last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the train, and, now, the last night in Buna. How much longer were our lives to be dragged out from one 'last night' to another?
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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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You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.
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The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.
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Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
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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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Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
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I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.
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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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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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Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All over the world, especially in Europe, and it's true they begin with anti-Israeli attitudes and then it's so strong that it runs over and becomes anti-Semitic.
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Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.
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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too. And another one replaced it, and that one is no longer the original text. These are questions that perturb me much more than whether it's history or not history.
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