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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.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.
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My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.
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Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.
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There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
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It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
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It's not only America. Terrorism now is a threat to the whole world.
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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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Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
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I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.
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Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
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Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.
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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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I am looking for the word which is there and shouldn't be there. I wonder, why is it there? Or I look for problems: the Akedah [the Binding of Isaac - Genesis 22]. It still baffles me. Each time I read it - and I read it at least twice a year - each time I discover new layers in it. Always. So this is of more concern to me than the minimalists.
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It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
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