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When adults wage war, children perish.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.
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The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.
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I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
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did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.
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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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I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
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And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.
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Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
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But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.
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In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.
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A voice behind me asked, Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now? and a voice within me answered: Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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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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In the beginning there was faith - which is childish trust - which is vain and illusion - which is dangerous.
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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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There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.
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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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I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.
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