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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.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.
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Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that the religious community is being oppressed and persecuted is something that every single person in the world who has any religious faith and religious feeling for - for people who have faith should speak up.
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I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.
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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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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
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My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.
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Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
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The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.
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There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.
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Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to.
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Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
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I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.
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I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words Biblical criticism again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely.
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The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.
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Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.
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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.
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[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.
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