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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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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.
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The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.
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The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.
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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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Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
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There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.
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I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.
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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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Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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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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When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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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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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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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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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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