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What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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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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You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.
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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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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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The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
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I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
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What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?
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We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.
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Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.
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The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.
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It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference
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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?
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Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.
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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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When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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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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