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I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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When adults wage war, children perish.
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In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.
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I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.
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Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
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Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.
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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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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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Am I my brother's keeper? There you have the whole Biblical understanding that you are your brother's keeper. You also have a whole other understanding in which you are not your brother's keeper. And I've heard some extremely bright people take this position.
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My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.
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I do not believe in collective guilt.
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Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
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There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.
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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.
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We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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