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You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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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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I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.
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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
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Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
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Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.
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It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
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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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My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself
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I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I hear that particular piece by Beethoven, my eyes close and out of the darkness emerges the pale and melancholy face of my Polish comrade bidding farewell to an audience of dying men.
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Humanity would never tolerate it
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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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I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.
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I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.
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[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel
You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.
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