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If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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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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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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You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.
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I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.
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I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I hear that particular piece by Beethoven, my eyes close and out of the darkness emerges the pale and melancholy face of my Polish comrade bidding farewell to an audience of dying men.
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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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It always hurts when you lose a secret.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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In the beginning there was faith - which is childish trust - which is vain and illusion - which is dangerous.
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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
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I think he is condemned by himself to loneliness. God is One: he was, he is, he will be always One. One is so lonely. Maybe that is why he created human beings--to feel less lonely. But as human beings betray his creation, he may become even lonelier.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.
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