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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?
Elie Wiesel
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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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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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For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
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You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.
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Whenever an angel says Be not afraid! you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
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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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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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Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy virile hate - for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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What I do, I want to do with all my being.
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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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Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.
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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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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
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None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
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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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