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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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I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.
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The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.
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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.
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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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I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
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For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me.
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When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.
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I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.
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Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
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..you do not leave a library if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.
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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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Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
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[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty, and this is fanaticism.
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The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.
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Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.
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