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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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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.
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Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.
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I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.
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I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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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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That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.
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