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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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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.
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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.
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No human being is illegal.
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I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I hear that particular piece by Beethoven, my eyes close and out of the darkness emerges the pale and melancholy face of my Polish comrade bidding farewell to an audience of dying men.
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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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I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.
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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .
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[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
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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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Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of the most flagrant injustice. I still blush every time I think of the way God makes fun of human beings, his favorite toys.
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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing.
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