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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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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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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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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.
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did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.
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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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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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[Tibet] never sought any territory. All it wanted is the conquest of the soul, that people should attain a kind of inner sovereignty, inner independence, inner freedom. And inner strength to attain the absolute.
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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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I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.
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Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
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Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.
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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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If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.
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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
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I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.
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you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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