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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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Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.
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I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
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The whole community must be saved [in Tibet].
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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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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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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The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
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The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.
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It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.
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I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.
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I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.
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Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
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All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to remember more - more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story. And no one can tell the story fully.
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I think he is condemned by himself to loneliness. God is One: he was, he is, he will be always One. One is so lonely. Maybe that is why he created human beings--to feel less lonely. But as human beings betray his creation, he may become even lonelier.
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I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.
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Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.
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