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What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.
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The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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A man can laugh while he suffers.
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Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.
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Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
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Holy War is a contradiction of terms.
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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t
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The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.
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For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
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I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.
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Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war
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The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.
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Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
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I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.
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I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.
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For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
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From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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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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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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