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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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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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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.
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Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
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I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.
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I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.
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Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.
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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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Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go dictatorship, not to go racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].
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every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.
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It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
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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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I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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