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A voice behind me asked, Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now? and a voice within me answered: Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows.

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.
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