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The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Judaic Scholar
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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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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
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Love makes everything complicated.
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Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.
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Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
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I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.
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Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.
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It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.
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I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.
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Whenever an angel says Be not afraid! you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.
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