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The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.
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The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.
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[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.
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First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.
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Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.
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Some events do take place but are not true others are, although they never occurred.
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From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.
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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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Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me.
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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
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When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
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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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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
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