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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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Judaic Scholar
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Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
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The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
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Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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I do not believe in collective guilt.
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There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.
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The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.
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Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?
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Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.
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When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then when it's ready, I reread, recorrect, and retype it. Everything is my own work. I do not give it to secretaries or to typists.
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When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
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What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?
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When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.
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He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.
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'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.
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Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.
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Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
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I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it.
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I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.
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