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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
Autobiographer
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Judaic Scholar
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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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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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The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.
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There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.
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The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.
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A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.
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There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
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My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.
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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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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 Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge.
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We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.
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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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Humanity would never tolerate it
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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
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I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.
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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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Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and partake of the wine of friendship were they to remain locked in, they would forcibly break down the walls. It is they who force the writer to tell their stories.
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