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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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A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.
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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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Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
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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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From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.
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every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .
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One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.
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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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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
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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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I have absolutely no problem with the young Germans. I even feel sorry for the young Germans because to be maybe sons or daughters of killers is different than them to be sons and daughters of the victims. And I felt sorry for them. I still do.
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Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.
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I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.
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Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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Holy War is a contradiction of terms.
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I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.
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