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People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!
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I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.
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Some events do take place but are not true others are, although they never occurred.
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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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Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.
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Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words
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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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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.
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Am I my brother's keeper? There you have the whole Biblical understanding that you are your brother's keeper. You also have a whole other understanding in which you are not your brother's keeper. And I've heard some extremely bright people take this position.
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There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.
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How can a human being be illegal?
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I am looking for the word which is there and shouldn't be there. I wonder, why is it there? Or I look for problems: the Akedah [the Binding of Isaac - Genesis 22]. It still baffles me. Each time I read it - and I read it at least twice a year - each time I discover new layers in it. Always. So this is of more concern to me than the minimalists.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all.
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