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My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.
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 was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray.
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.
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No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.
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If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of the story in the later Priestly source, it is more miraculous: The water stands up on either side like a wall. There are walls of water standing up. As you move back in time, oddly enough, the story becomes more historical.
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Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
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The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.
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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.
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Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.
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Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.
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[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.
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I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.
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I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
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A word is worth a thousand pictures.
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Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
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I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.
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I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.
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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
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