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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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Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.
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Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
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One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.
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In the beginning there was faith - which is childish trust - which is vain and illusion - which is dangerous.
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Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.
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I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?
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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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The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.
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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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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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Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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We know, for instance, of The Book of the Wars of the Lord. It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]
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The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.
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