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I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.
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When adults wage war, children perish.
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A man can laugh while he suffers.
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I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.
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I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.
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We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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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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The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.
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If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?
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When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
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It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.
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I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
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It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.
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I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
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