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The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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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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I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.
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After all, God is God because he remembers.
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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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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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