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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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My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.
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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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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain
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Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.
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Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.
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The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.
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I have absolutely no problem with the young Germans. I even feel sorry for the young Germans because to be maybe sons or daughters of killers is different than them to be sons and daughters of the victims. And I felt sorry for them. I still do.
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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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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
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If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
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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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I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.
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God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
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Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me.
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I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.
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There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.
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I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!
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I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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