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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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Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.
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I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.
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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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[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.
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I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.
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The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.
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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
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Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.
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I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.
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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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I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
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