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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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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
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Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.
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Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All over the world, especially in Europe, and it's true they begin with anti-Israeli attitudes and then it's so strong that it runs over and becomes anti-Semitic.
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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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The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.
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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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Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words
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You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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I was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray.
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Holy War is a contradiction of terms.
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You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.
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[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.
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The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.
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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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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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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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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Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
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When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.
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