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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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We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.
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The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.
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You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.
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Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.
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I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.
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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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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
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When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.
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I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .
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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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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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Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
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