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Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go dictatorship, not to go racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].
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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
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What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.
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When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.
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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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Some events do take place but are not true others are, although they never occurred.
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For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
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You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.
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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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When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then when it's ready, I reread, recorrect, and retype it. Everything is my own work. I do not give it to secretaries or to typists.
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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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In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.
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Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.
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We know, for instance, of The Book of the Wars of the Lord. It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]
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Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.
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The Vietnam War ended because of the campus situation. And so many other injustices have been corrected in the World today only thanks to the young people. So, young people especially have a responsibility for Tibet.
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After all, God is God because he remembers.
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You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.
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I do not believe in collective guilt.
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